Growing Supports,..its the best description i could come up with,..at the end of last summer i was pruning the "Forsythia x Intermedia",'Lynwood',..and spotted that one branch was very straight so i trimmed it and used it as a support for a new rose bush,..after a few weeks i was amazed to see it had developed new shoots,..as seen below. ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) Knowing that it was possibly the life still left in the branch/support that was producing the new shoots and not that it had rooted,..i posted a shot of it,..but thinking by the following spring it would just be a support,..proved me wrong its sprouting a shoot again as seen below. ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) Around the same time i pruned a branch from one of my rose bushes,..and again a straight branch,.. good enough for a support,..cutting off the thorns of course,..well surprise surprise it too has developed a shoot,..as seen below,..think how hard it is to root something then think about these two,..i scratch my head. ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) Just adding these shots of "Pulmonaria officinalis",'Lungworth',..seeing they are blooming just now, ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden )
Some people can grow a tree from a dead stick. I think I know of one . . . . And the pulmonaria are lovely!
My pulmonaria is still sleeping....thanks for sharing these, though. It is nice to see yours getting started, though I am surprised that, as our weather is sooo nice, that ours isn't growing yet. Is your rose really growing from being rooted or is it sprouting from having adequate moisture? wonder of wonders if it developed roots without any help. let us know.
Hi Jane,..lol,..i will have to be careful of what i stick in the ground,..talk about having green fingers. ===================================================== Hi Carolyn, i have lots of Pulmonaria starting to bloom,..i got a small piece from an old lady who used live next door and i keep rooting new plants from that,..i like that it has a long flowering season here plus the leaf is attractive,..hoping yours will come to life soon. Oh that rose branch is about three foot high and i stuck it in the ground at the end of last summer so i would say its rooted,..but i will update in a few weeks. =================================================== Hi Cheryl, you just posted when i blinked,..easy peasy when nature does it for me,
The will to survive under adverse conditions in nature is amazing, she is always up to presenting us with a surprise. Looks like you have some new bushes. Often, even if I do not need a plant, if I see it struggling to survive, I try to find a way to work with it. I have a 'woods area' with a collection of the unneeded. Every every once in a while I reclaim one for a new planting. Jerry
Plants have been self propagating in a variety of ways for thousands of years and if your Rose cutting did develop roots that proves that humans aren't always as necessary to the process as they think. Our ancestors didn't need all the rooting products to get the job done.
Hi Jerry, top marks to you for giving nature a helping hand,..like you when i am in the woods i often see small oak trees starting,..but right in the path where every summer there is heavy machinery,..i have often dug up one of those small oaks and took it out to the Victorian estate and planted it there,..and not just oaks quite a few species. ===================================================== Hi Toni, very true about how nature has grown plants without our help or sprays and enhancers.
