Plant Cuttings in Potting Mix & in Water

A friend on the Folia Garden Journal Site sent me some wonderful plant cuttings today! I wish I had some perlite and/or peat to root these in, plus some rooting hormone. I'm sure I'd have better success.

I was able to get 12 cuttings from the Wooly Morning Glory/Hawaiian Woodrose. I put 6 in water and 6 in potting mix to root. It is supposed to be very easy to root.

I got 10 cuttings from the Lemon Balm. I had some Park Starts seed starters left over from snapdragons that didn't germinate so I got the brilliant idea to put some lemon balm cuttings in those. I think they'll do really well.

I was able to get 5 cuttings from the Pineapple Sage. I put 2 in the Park Starts and 3 in water. This is also supposed to be an easy plant to root. I hope so because I've been wanting this one badly!

Made a new little garden

A couple of weeks ago I hurt my knees pretty badly building my butterfly garden. I'm not able to finish it, so it currently sits covered in thick newspaper and mulch. I've been struggling to find places for my new plants that I had ordered online weeks ago that were intended for the butterfly garden.

I've got 5 or 6 plants coming in any day now, so I built a new little 3'x3' garden to hold them. I cleared the weeds, then I turned the soil and mixed in 2 bags (3 cubic ft) of mushroom compost.
The bed will be surrounded by a walkway. This photo was taken from the porch, so the flowers here will give me a nice view.



It was a lot easier on my knees to use my new long-handle shovel instead of getting down on my hands and knees and using my hands and trowel as I usually do. I see all these little roots so I’m dying to kneel down and sift through and remove them all, but I just can’t do it--my knees are still too sore, though they are improving.

Free roses: Joseph's Coat Cuttings

Took a short walk down the street and saw some gorgeous roses at several of my neighbors' homes. I asked one neighbor if I could get cuttings from his roses.

The roses were growing waist deep in weeds and desperately needed dead-heading—so sad. I put half the cuttings into a cup and half into a milk jug greenhouse in potting soil.