Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants and Wildflowers - Part 2, 1 by frostweed

frostweed wrote:
I want to tell you all about an experiment that I am conducting. I had read in my garden encyclopedia, that if you cut your hardwood prunnings to about 8 inches, and bundle them up and bury them in sand through the winter, they will make a calous and then form roots and sprout in the Spring. Well, I tried that, and I never had any luck. This time I bundled the cuttings and put them in a pot with potting soil, and kept them moist, and look at the results. I don't know why the cuttings being bundled works better than being single, could be that they keep each other from drying out. In any event, I am thrilled, those are cuttings of Desert Willow, and Bird of Paradise, so if they do well, I will have enough to share with everybody.