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Cuttings in Water

(oh I get it, this list is about Propogation, I thought you said...:-)
okay but write to ME PERSONALLY about that last one, PLEASE, but NOT TO
THE LIST!!!!...and, puh-lease, nothing involving water!
                  :-)  (segue) :-) 
    HOWEVER: there is a place for THAT too!
Would anyone like to start posting thieir lists of
plants whose cuttings will root in plain water, with no funky stuff,
just water? (Sometimes,  actually make tea out of 'em!) Here are some of
mine...
But I bet everyone was talking about this last month!?!?! These are
wonderful if you just don't get rooting cuttings in soil, like me (they
keep drying out..or this or that... I don't know why)
   Salvia elegans & cvs (Pineapple Sage)
   Salvia involucrata (Rosebud Sage
   Coleus blumei (syn. Solenostemon
scuttelaroides!)
   Lamium "White Nancy" and/or "Beacon SIlver"
   Lamiastrum galeobdolon "Hermann's Pride"
   Tanacetum balsamita (Costmary, Bible Leaf)
   Plectranthus, in general (ie most?)
   Ocimum (Basils-except Camphor Basil & Green             Basil
   Coleus amboinicus variegatus (Cuban "oregano"
occasionally:
   Scutellaria lateriflora (Scullcap)
   Salvia splendens vars. (whatayacallum)
rarely:
   Nepeta cataria (Catnip)
James. L.Hudson says:
   Leonotis (Lion's Ear)
    (gee cats don't like water! or pneumonia either.)
Often it is the plants which form aerial roots as very small seedlings
still under the cover of the plastic dome on the trays, in high-humidity
conditions. Not verified in these cases however, but they do form aerial
roots, or have, as described:
   Hyptis suaveolens (Wild Spikenard)
   Salvia agnes (of all things!)
   Elsholtzia densa
   Lycopus europaeus (Gypsywort)
   Rhabdosiella calycina (mint family; Africa)
   Salvia tilaefolia (Tarahumara chia, is it???
   Scutellaria altissima 
   Stachys cooleyae (Cooley's Hedge Nettle)
I am certain the list would be longer if anyone around here had actually
been looking for this...
   I get the impression that many of the Stachys that are "greenleafed"
as opposed to silver-leaved 
(i.e., Hedge Nettles as opposed to "Lamb's Ears" types are likely to and
many Dead Nettles (Lamium sp) as well. Never have seen much out of any
stem that is: Woody or really fuzzy (Salvia caespitosa gave it a really
good try though)-but what do I know?

Good Gardening!
Rob
ChroiPepperoni@webtv.net
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