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    propagating camellias

    A friend has offered me a cutting of a lovely Camellia bush he has in his back garden. It's in flower now, would love some advice on how much to take and how to get it to grow. Can I take a shooting piece and put it in water and see if it roots, and then pot it up?

    thanks, have really only grown veg before, but now have garden as well as allotment!
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    You need to take leaf bud cuttings but I don't know when is the best time to do it.
    Last edited by roitelet; 23-03-2008, 10:22 AM.
    Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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    • #3
      Camellias are lime-hating, so you can't root them in tap water. Try this:
      Royal Horticultural Society - Gardening Advice
      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        [QUOTE=Two_Sheds;198073]Camellias are lime-hating, so you can't root them in tap water.

        thanks very much - that's useful to know.

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          In theory you can also take woody cuttings or whatever you call them but they didn't take when I tried. Re the plant, we have one that is about 8 foot tall and blooming enormous but I think it's about 30 years old. Our other one is about 2 foot tall and flowered for the first time this year - only 5 flowers but really pretty.

          Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

          Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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          • #6
            My mother put some pieces in a pot last autumn and they have rooted over the winter in her unheated conservatory, so probably frost free but cold. She has tried spring and summer before without success.
            I could not live without a garden, it is my place to unwind and recover, to marvel at the power of all growing things, even weeds!
            Now a little Shrinking Violet.

            http://potagerplot.blogspot.com/

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            • #7
              Good gritty compost and around the edge of a clay pot ... never fails and put them in a cold frame. Or you could air layer them on his bush and sever the layer it 12 months time ( or there abouts)
              ntg
              Never be afraid to try something new.
              Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
              A large group of professionals built the Titanic
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