Russian Sage Hardwood Cuttings

Works for all types of lavender and cuttings from new or semi hardwood.

Russian sage hardwood cuttings.

Dig a hole to accommodate your russian sage and place it in the hole making sure to spread the roots out a bit. However many gardeners have found that dividing russian sage actually harms the root systems and they don t survive well after they have split. Here is a link that might be useful. Some evergreen plants hollies for example can also be taken at the same time of year as other hardwood cuttings.

If you want to make your own hedge or create plants for a charity sale let ian roofe show you how to take hardwood cuttings as you ll see it s not hard at. You can even stick the hardwood cuttings in the ground over the winter and have new plants ready for spring. Hardwood takes longer than stem tip cuttings but works. Russian sage will root from hardwood cuttings as well.

I ve managed to get them to root using stem tip cuttings with rooting hormone in sand for a medium and in a jar of water. May 16 2016 at 2 45 am. Russian sage is a tough perennial that can thrive in tough places. Did it smell like sage.

Hardwood cuttings provide an easy and reliable method of propagating a range of deciduous climbers trees and shrubs and as bonus they are taken from mid autumn until late winter when more time is usually available to the gardener. Take cuttings in early summer for propagation by cutting a stem about 4 to 6 inches long right below a leaf node. Will be going south for the winter so gonna try the propagating in the spring. Remove leaves from the bottom 2 inches of the cutting.

Best growing conditions for russian sage. It is treated as a perennial but is really a subshrub. Sharon ro b erts rooted in a little over six weeks but only a. Scented geraniums took twenty six days to root vigorously.

Lavender is a useful and beautiful plant for any garden making it no wonder that so many of us want to grow it. Branches will turn into hardwood in the fall and those branches can be used to make cuttings over the winter russian sage is a tough perennial that can thrive in tough places. Because russian sage plants can grow quite bushy and large it would seem that using a root dividing technique would be the quickest and easiest way to propagate. Full diy video at the end.

An oregano origanum majoricum took about as long but the roots were weak and sparse fruit sage s. Some herbs were less successful. Dorisiana took nearly four weeks the two lavenders i tried lavandula angustifolia tucker s early purple and l. Branches will turn into hardwood in the fall and those branches can be used to make cuttings over the winter.