Growing In My Garden

This is an update on my post entitled Yellow Twig Dogwood.

On Saturday, May 18, I planted three more starts that I cut from the branch Ellen gave me. These starts were rooted in water but took almost 9 full weeks from the time I cut them and put them in water until they were rooted enough to plant. Lesson learned: Never Give Up.

I’m planting them in a different spot than the first one I planted to see if they do better in one spot than in another. I’ve heard that these dogwood shrubs like sunlight and a moist location. I don’t have a spot that accommodating, so the first twig is in 6 hours of sun but not moist, these next 3 are in less than 2 hours of sun but a moist area. Right now, in fact, I have them sitting there in a pot to see if they’re ok with so little sun.

I’ll keep you posted!

My Yellow Dogwood has roots!

March 13th, I took a cutting from Ellen of her yellow dogwood bush. It was one long stem that I cut into six 6-8″ pieces. I put the pieces in root starter, then into water.

Almost immediately, the little sticks bloomed with leaves and buds. Spectacular! But, still no root.

Today, 24 days later, the first pieces finally have roots.

I’m anxious to plant these amazing bushes and see if they will grow in my yard!

Update:

I planted the start with roots on April 18. The others are still waiting for roots.

Yellow Twig Dogwood