Winter is trimming season , in particular deciduous flowering shrubs with summer flowering such as roses, buddleia, lagerstroemia… but also small fruits such as currants and blackcurrants.
Let's take advantage of this pruning to collect the branches and make so-called "dry wood cuttings. .
The general rule (watch out for generalities that lead to exceptions…) is to put two eyes in the ground and one in the air. When talking about the eyes, understand the wood buds. When we say one eye, understand two eyes if those are opposite . It's easier to understand when the eyes are alternate . How are you, are you following?
So, we take a branch of the year; understand a branch that grew last year, so less than a year, so the year... (horticultural vocabulary has some subtleties...)
This branch is cut at a bevel at its base, just below one eye (or two eyes if they are side by side)
The same branch is cut straight above the third eye. The difference in cut, bevel or straight, is to differentiate the base from the top of the cutting. This will be important when burying.
So we make several cuttings of the same plant. We make a little bundle. We attach everything with a tag to remember which shrub it is. You understood that you had to put the cuttings in the same direction, the bias cut, at the bottom.
All that remains is to bury the f agot, to the base of the upper eyes. That is to say that the bundle is three-quarters buried. Choose a place in the shade and where it will be easy to water them next summer. And yes, the bundle will stay in place for a year. Next fall, the cuttings will be dug up, separated from each other and put back in the ground in the nursery or directly in place .
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