Josephine ... Thank you. My Goldenrod is so tall, I cant wait for it and my Texas star to start blooming. Remember I told you I had something called Black & Blue well its blooming too right along with the blue Salvia. :)
Sheila thats ok I think I got some coming. I sure hope some of my cutting take. :(
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Marylyn--it will root much faster and easier if you wait until its bloom period is over. Plants that are in a bloom cycle don't root as well or as fast. They root better when putting on vegetative growth.
Smockette:
In researching a bush I grew up with an loved (blooms looked like popcorn balls!) I discovered it was a VIBURNUM, just as you'd suggested!
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/83632/
Who knew all this time I had known and enjoyed them for years already! I think that sounds like a nice solution! In the photos on Dave's it even shows someone trimmed it into a tree shape like they do with crepe myrtals. How neat!
Ooh, ahhh, I love Snowball Viburnums! I planted three when we move here and within the first month we had a plague of grasshoppers that chewed them down to nothing. I’ve never tried to root anything from cuttings. Now that I’ve found this site, I keep “eyeing” a neighbors Viburnum on the way to work. She’s a sweet lady and I’m sure she would give me a cutting. Would there be anything wrong with getting a cutting this time of year? Would I be able to set it out in the Fall or would it need to over winter in the house?
I'm not an expert but I'd think you could leave it out over the fall. But if nothing else it wouldn't hurt to winter it in the house either.
Grasshoppers...grr...when I lived in the Bryan area they were as plentiful as blades of grass and ate everything!
I know viburnum are hardy as we had ours right next to a walnut tree, which are supposed to kill everything they touch! Luckily it didn't kill the snowball bush, just stunted it's growth I suppose....she always stayed about 5' tall and her blooms were always magnificent!
I have this variety of Snowball and love it. The white balls of blooms are so heavy it droops. I hate to see the blooms fade too, they are short lived.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/57586
.....speaking of Grasshoppers ... I saw the biggest grasshopper I ever saw in my life today. It was eating my Poplar tree. When I sprayed water on the tree if flew off ... looked like a bird!
Sheila: how short lived are the blooms?
city: Oh my gosh TO FUNNY! "Looked like a bird," luckily one of my cats will catch and eat them. But you are right, they are SO HUGE she can only stomach 1 an evening because it's like a whole feast.
Do toads eat grasshoppers or are they just to big for them?
Not to many grasshoppers in this area compared to sandy Bryan/CS.
Well, I've nearly convinced myself I can grow a Viburnum from a cutting. So I brought a pair a garden shears with me to work today, I'm going to box up some chocolate, stop by the neighbors house.See if I can and make her an offer she won't refuse.
I can grow a Viburnum from a cutting.
I can grow a Viburnum from a cutting.
I can grow a Viburnum from a cutting.
You can do it, you can do it! We KNOW you can do it!! Go, cocoa!
Seems to me they lasted a month or two, but most of the time they were green. After they turned the white, it wasn't long before they begin to brown. I just want to have them bloom all year!! They are georgeous. I have a cutting in my bubbler test tub now. lol! Just started that this past weekend, so don't have any results to share.
We can do it together, success in numbers....etc.!!! lol
This message was edited Jul 27, 2006 6:25 PM