Re: Gaura.....- Propagation through cuttings

I'm impressed with Rick's propagation set up and wish I had the space
and facilities to do it, too.
I used a very amatuerish and small-scale method to clone an especially
red wegelia bush in a friend's yard and a cute small pink landscape rose
from another friend. I put a large unused aquarium in the shade on the
north side of the house, inside of which I filled some plastic pots with
moist peat and perlite into which I poked the cuttings which I had
dipped in rooting hormone. Then I covered the aquarium with kitchen
plactic wrap opening it a bit if things got too foggy inside. I had
about a 70% success rate and one of the little wegelias of about a foot
tall put on a nice flush of bloom in the yard this year, now it is close
to two feet tall.  The roses are blooming, too, but the insects are
finding them very tasty and they are pretty chewed up.
I shall try this with some Gaura and Buddleia cuttings this year, but
wonder if I can get them through the winter? In the basement under
lights? I can't count on having another mild winter here--but it would
be wonderful to get a nice specimen of Gaura to set out next spring. As
someone said earlier on the list, $7 was not too much to pay for this
plant even tho it may only be an "annual" here.
-- 
Barb Perna
Southcental WI,  Zone 4

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