Dead Easy Perennials Cuttings To Make.

I got up this morning and potted up some perennials, hoed the veg plot, did some strimming, split some perennials, watered the polytunnel  and veg plot and my plant nurseries  and decided to take some perennial cuttings.  Sedum cuttings to be exact!

Largish Sedum plants.  I love these perennials.  The Butterflies love them in late summer early  autumn.  When they are in flower it means winter is on their way.  They are members of the Stonecrop family and dead easy to divide or take cuttings.

You just take your secateurs or scissors and take some cuttings.  You can dip them in organic hormonic rooting powder if you like.  I didn't bother because they root so easily.  I just put them in compost filled plastic modules and watered them.  They will be rooted in at least three weeks.  Probably sooner in the polytunnel.



I pulled most of the leaves and the tip off and pushed them into the compost in the plastic modules.  Taking the tip off makes them bush out rather than being long and straggly.  You could even start them off in water if you want?

Here they are next to some I made earlier.  I sound like Valerie Singleton when she showed Blue Peter viewers how to make their very own nuclear power station out of six Ski yoghurt cartons and some sticky back plastic.  CELLOTAPE.

Go on give it a go and take some cuttings.