Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Your Neck of the Woods Chat- Winter Solstice 2012, 5 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Judy and Sally--
You can be my experiments on rooting this WS from cuttings. Also Ben (whom you do not know)
in NJ--that I took two small WS plants and a bunch of cuttings in water. I said he could try to see if they will root???
We had it arranged that he would come to my sister's place when I got there and called him.
We have been D-mailing for more than a year--but I had never met him.
What a nice man! Totally different than I had imagined. Even brought me a Chinese coffee cake.

I am open to anyone disproving the advice I was given--that my WS is the kind that can ONLY
be propagated from seed. I was also told that there are other var. that can be rooted from cuttings.
Reading on the Ch. Wiki--and going by the pictures of different WS blooms--I am now fairly sure
that mine is called Chimonanthus Praecox "Gou Yin". Not "luteus" as I had thought.

This is the PF link to the one called "luteus". My pictures are in this link.
If you look at the very last one--a close-up of the bloom--my bloom has the purplish throat
which was in the picture called "Gou Ying".
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/299438/

I have to go back and read some of those links I Googled and posted above to see,
especially the one labeled "Chinese Wikipedia". Man! That had pages and pages of info. om the WS.

Judy--
I can already see the tiniest tips of my Tahiti Daffs. showing around the WS shrub.
This week--it is supposed to be quite warm--so I am sure they will sprout up a bit more.
Getting the shovel out and digging them up and will try to plant them in a BIG pot, temporarily,
so as not to interrupt their spring emergence and blooms to be.
In doing this--I will, in essence, be also root-pruning the shrub in a circle around it. The bulbs are in a circle around the shrub.

My bush is already blooming--just partially. There are a lot more buds yet to open.
Good time to eye what stems or branched need to be cut back.

1 & 2--These close-ups are, probably, from 2007. See how much smaller the shrub is 6 years ago?
3--in mid December--Before all the leaves blew off
4--All bare now after the high winds we had recently
5--Taken Jan 5th--you can see many blooms starting to open.