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Re: What are the world's easiest cuttings ?

Tim -- does it matter what time of year you do that with your sedums?  I
tried it in late fall last year and none survived,

Jill Zimmerman
Issaquah, WA zone 7

Chavez, Tim A wrote:

> Since I haven't tried african daisies I can't compare, but for the last
> few years I have gone out to my rockery and broken off stems of sedum
> (small ones like dragon's blood) that have gotten leggy and stuck them
> in a new hole made with a twig.Its rare when one doesn't live, and then
> only because something like pennyroyal preceded it and left its oil in
> the soil. Nothing else in my garden even comes close to that high of a
> success rate. The larger succulents like Live-Forever are not quite as
> easy.
>
> Tim Chavez
> Z6 Wichita, KS
>
> The heat came too early and is lasting too long. I am losing plants
> every day that cannot take the heat and Humidity. More so than any other
> summer. It will probably continue until the end of August.
> Anybody got any good recommendations for what to replant with that can
> take this heat and still take a -15 low? (The sedums haven't even
> noticed that its hot)
> > ----------
> > From:         Mark Speakman[SMTP:markspkn@iol.ie]
> > Sent:         Wednesday, July 15, 1998 3:06 PM
> > To:   seeds-list@eskimo.com
> > Subject:      What are the world's easiest cuttings ?
> >
> > Are osteospurmum echium, african daisies the world's easiest hardy
> > cuttings
> > or would anyone have any other stick it it any old how and it'll grow
> > like
> > fun merchants to compete ?
> > Mark
> >
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