00:00So today I'm going to try and get some cuttings out of some plants, here's one example of rosemary.
00:24Beautiful smell grown from seed, this is from last year.
00:30See it's getting quite big, it could probably do with being on the ground now.
00:34But I want to take some cuttings from this, a few of these and then some other things as well, possibly lavender.
00:42A little lavender plant isn't that big yet, it's in the ground.
00:45I'm going to look and see if there's anything else we can try and propagate for free plants.
00:49So first up what I'm doing here is pre-soaking some little pots with some compost on them.
00:57This is fine compost here, give the roots a chance to go down.
01:03Then I get established, let the cuttings take.
01:08I'm just bottom watering a tray of seedlings here.
01:12So that's the first step.
01:17So this is the rosemary I showed you there.
01:23This is a Mediterranean herb.
01:25So what you need here is some cutter, some iron cutter.
01:29You could use scissors if you haven't had any.
01:31And what we're going to do is take it right down to about right there.
01:37Just above the leaf, the joint then.
01:42And then with this I'm going to peel off the bottom foliage.
01:52Because what you don't want is the plant to lose too much water through its leaves.
01:58So you don't waste the energy on that.
02:01So you can get quite good all of this later then.
02:28And that's it now.
02:30So all we're going to do then is just pop it in the side.
02:35I'll take a few of these because some might not tick.
02:38Then I'll do a few round the side.
02:45That way it keeps them separate and stops a whole pile of cutlings in the middle.
02:50But tangled roots if they'll take.
02:53So I'm going to look here now at the printer bed and see what there is available for cutting.
03:01Now the first things I see here are the rosemary.
03:06Or sorry, the lavender.
03:08Down here there's not a lot of, this is quite a young lavender.
03:12So there's not a lot of roots on it.
03:15But a few wee pieces are going to be there we can cut.
03:19And you don't want the hard wood you want the soft wood.
03:22At this time of year.
03:24So we'll maybe tick.
03:27Well there has been in flour.
03:29So we're not going to tick too many from it.
03:32But um.
03:36I'm really hoping this survives and thrives on the ground a few months ago.
03:44And.
03:45And then with a flour you want to cut the flour off.
03:50So.
03:51See here there's not many leaves on it.
03:54So I'm going to cut this right down.
03:56To where the flour starts.
03:59So.
04:00I'm going to shut off my camera.
04:02And then.
04:03Peel off these bottom leaves.
04:05And those little.
04:06Little joints where the.
04:07The.
04:08The.
04:09The.
04:10The.
04:11The.
04:12The.
04:13The.
04:14The.
04:15Square.
04:16Can become.
04:17Roots.
04:18If it ticks.
04:19And again.
04:20All three of these stems have a.
04:22Flour on them.
04:23So I'm just going to bring that right down.
04:26Just like there.
04:27Oh.
04:28That's not right.
04:29And again.
04:30Just.
04:31Pulling the leaves.
04:32The bottom leaves off.
04:33As long as you have some leaves on there.
04:34So that.
04:35The plant can feed itself.
04:36Through the leaves.
04:37And again.
04:38Just.
04:39Pulling the leaves.
04:40The bottom leaves off.
04:41As long as you have some leaves on there.
04:43So that.
04:44The plant can feed itself.
04:45Through the leaves.
04:46Through the leaves.
04:58So we'll go now and see if there's anything else.
05:00So that we can.
05:01Try to cut down.
05:03Um.
05:12Okay.
05:16Cutting here.
05:17So.
05:18I'm going to see.
05:19The scabia is cutting.
05:20I'm only going to try one of these.
05:21So.
05:22And again.
05:23Just putting the bottom leaves off.
05:24And there's a flower bud developing on this.
05:25So we want to get rid of that.
05:26So we'll take that.
05:27Down there.
05:28Follow it down.
05:29Snub it.
05:30And there.
05:31And there we have.
05:32Just three leaves on it.
05:33And then.
05:34Just.
05:35That one.
05:36I'm just doing one.
05:37Because they're quite.
05:38Big plants.
05:39So hopefully that'll tick.
05:40And then.
05:41We'll go back here.
05:42I did see.
05:43There's a few geraniums here.
05:44And a gem.
05:45Which I'll maybe want to try.
05:46So.
05:47This is a gem.
05:48Which hasn't flowered yet.
05:49Um.
05:50But what I'm going to do.
05:51Is just.
05:52Have a go.
05:53I'll just reposition the camera here.
05:54This is a peach collared gem.
05:55And.
05:56It's really getting established.
05:57It's only in.
05:58A few months.
05:59So.
06:00It's really getting established.
06:01It's only in.
06:02A few months.
06:03So.
06:04And then.
06:05We'll go back here.
06:06And then.
06:07We'll go back here.
06:08I did see.
06:09There's a few geraniums here.
06:10And a gem.
06:11Which I'll maybe want to try.
06:12So.
06:13This is a gem.
06:14Which hasn't flowered yet.
06:15Um.
06:16But what I'm going to do.
06:17Is just.
06:18Have a go.
06:19I'll just reposition the camera here.
06:20This is a peach collared gem.
06:22And.
06:23It's really getting established.
06:24And.
06:25But there's a.
06:26A nice.
06:27Half a looking stem.
06:28And then.
06:29Over here.
06:30We have.
06:31A.
06:32Potentilla.
06:33As well.
06:34Which has had these lovely little peach flowers as well.
06:35So.
06:36A lot of buds coming on it there.
06:37And I'll just take.
06:38A couple of cuttings from this too.
06:39And from the middle here.
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07:57but it's worth trying for free plants and there's one more actually while we're here
08:03that I want to have a go at which is this one here, this is Purple Dome in Aster near England
08:12and very healthy looking here at the moment and this should be coming on the fire soon
08:21so what I'm going to do is just give you a wee overview, these are a lot of late firing plants in this patch
08:35so just do this one here
08:40and just the way we're on here, other ideas, there's a little plant below me which you can also propagate but it's just too young yet
08:55I don't want to take too much away from it
08:59is this Veronica
09:02this is an Ulster Blue it's called, a beautiful replant, small, good for the front of the border
09:08there's geraniums here as well which you could probably get
09:12they're very young so they haven't flowered this season but well next
09:16this is all new stuff
09:18and at the back there
09:20there is
09:22Achillia or Yarrow
09:24these sort of
09:28Jyrotop kind of flowers in different colours you get them
09:32and they're perennial as well
09:34they'll come back so you could take a cut them from them
09:36when they're a bit bigger
09:38they can grow quite tall
09:40but there's quite a lot of things you can do
09:44in terms of perennial plants
09:46it's worth just looking them up
09:48and so
09:50so lastly now we get our
09:54make sure the stems good and clear
09:56and clean
09:58just popping up
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