Bits fall off things and I keep them. Our staff room has a high even temperature, making it perfect for seed starting and rooting, so I do a lot of this stuff on the windowsil at work.
Photo 1: I’m most excited about this, a cactus that was brought in for the plant sale, then someone knocked it over and I picked up the pieces. I placed them on a mix of seed and cutting compost and perlite, watered moderately and waited around 4 weeks for roots to appear, now I have around 5rooted cacti.
A huge thank you to Grenville for identifying this for me as Mammillaria elongata var. stella-aurata. :)
Photo 2: Hylotelephium spectabile (syn. Sedum spectabile) cutting, once again an accident – I don’t break these things on purpose!
Photo 3: Ant on Digitalis purpurea var. alba ‘Apricot Delight’
Photo 4: Clematis ‘Hagley Hybrid’
Photo 5: Aloe aristata flower. :)
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Mammillaria elongata var stella-aurata Mammillaria elongata
Showing Roots
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Hylotelephium spectabile Cutting Hylotelephium spectabile
Showing Roots
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Aloe aristata
Blooming
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Lagurus ovatus
Blooming
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Sedum morganianum
Growing
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Lampranthus 'Pink lady' Cuttings Lampranthus
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Bean Broad 'Aquadulce Claudia' Vicia faba |
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Digitalis purpurea
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Comments
Amarylis wrote:
Isn’t it great when broken bits of plant root for you & you get something for nothing! :-)) I found lots of “bits & pieces” on the shelves in the supermarket where my wife works. “Unfortunately” that hardly ever happens any longer as most plants come in a cellophane wrapping. :-((
When we lived in Cuenca, Spain, I’d often go for a walk after a summer thunderstorm because I often found bits of broken plants that had been brought down to the street from the balconies & windows above & I managed to root some of them!
I can’t bear to throw away plant material that could possibly be used to propagate another plant!
Posted on 20 Jun 12 (11 months ago)
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