Fifteen Hebe Cuttings With Roots In June.

I checked on the Hebe cuttings I made about a month ago.  May was the hottest in a hundred and fifty years or since weather records began.

It's not exactly cuttings weather.  Especially if you own a friendly polytunnel  called 'Portugal'.  It's  been Scorchio and not all the cuttings have survived.  Even I have failure sometimes.  This is some one who eats sleeps and drinks plants and their propagation.

Any road or any way.  Some one gave my brother  some plants pots the other day ("thank you") and they looked the perfect size to pot on some cuttings.  So this morning I got up and inspected the lads and lasses cuttings in the polytunnel:

 Rooted Hebe cuttings.  "Oh what joy!"  I sound like Miranda's mother!

Fifteen new Hebe plants have taken up residence where the new potatoes where until yesterday.  Cheap multi purpose compost bags used to keep the weeds down and for water to puddle and the roots can have a drink when they want.  Sounds like yours truly.

The compost came from the German garden centre and beer retailer of course.

Have you made any successful shrub cuttings recently?  There's  plenty of time to make them from late July to September.

We enjoyed our new potatoes last night with some corned dog (corned beef) our potatoes, one of our cabbages and some Japanese onions.  All from the veg plot.  The sliced corned beef and bottle of Portuguese white wine came from you know where!   They should give me a job writing for them! 

I wouldn't  mind writing gardening articles or perhaps a book called: Gardening On The Sheepshead Peninsula?