Re: Rosemary

Tony & Moira Ryan wrote:
> 
> Jane Reese wrote:
> >
> > One of our propagaters said she had the best luck with cuttings that had a
> > branched tip.
> > I have had trouble with them also.  They will root easily in water (not the
> > approved medium), but then tend to die when moved to soil.
> > Jane
> >
> > >I have been trying to take rosemary cuttings with no success - can any one
> > >give me some pointers on how I should be doing this? (I was originally told
> > >it was easy :-))
> > >
> > >
> > >Raelene
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
> > >       F
> > >       Subject:        Rosemary
> > >
> > >       What kind of Rosemary are you planting in your Medit-garden this
> > >
> > >       year...where, and why?
> 
> Hi
> have been to busy to reply earlier, so you will have to forgive a sort
> of omnibus answer to several points which have been raised.
> 
> Rosemaries are perfectly hardy where I garden, but I have only a limited
> amount of hot sunny exposure to suit them, so I just grow one variety -
> R officinalis 'Collingwood Ingram'. This is a reltively small bush which
> has beautiful rich blue flowers and both creeping and upright branches,
> which seems to me to achieve the best of all worlds if one has only room
> for one.
> 
> As it is growing in  a pretty hard site, in full sun at the top of a
> drystone wall, it does tend to get woody and miserable every few years
> and then I raise it again from cuttings. (This woodiness happens in
> spite of its being quite vigorously pruned throughout the year to
> provide shoots for cooking.)
> 
> I do find cuttings seem to root better sometimes than others, but have
> been too disorganized to check which season is best. No doubt one could
> extend the good rooting time by using a rooting compound, but I rarely
> buy these, as they stay effective for so short a time and seem to me
> largely waste of money.
> 
> I was, however, very interested by this idea that branched shoots may
> root more easily. I suddenly noticed the current plant was in sore need
> of renewal just when it was coming in to bloom. I managed to find only
> one nice vigoous young shoot, so took a couple of branched ones in
> flower as a backing, just cutting off the flower buds. As I do with most
> cuttings, I put them in a pot of sawdust and covered the pot with a
> home-made belljar.
> 
> Imagine my surprise when the lovely young shoot obstinately refused to
> grow roots, while the two tiny branched ones (with the added
> disincentive of having had flower buds on) both rooted quite easly and I
> now have two small but sturdy plants growing in pots. I shan't however
> risk them up on the wall until they have had a year to wax fat in the
> safety of the pots.
> 
> To my surprise the single vigorous shoot never rooted and finally just
> gave up.
> 
> Moira
> --
> Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
> Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
> Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. ClimX-Mozilla-Status: 0009perate

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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate
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