{"id":15429,"date":"2016-01-27T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15429"},"modified":"2016-02-20T07:04:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T14:04:51","slug":"january-hardwood-cuttings-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/january-hardwood-cuttings-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardwood Cuttings Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>January is a good month to take hardwood cuttings including .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buddleia &#8211; Currants<br \/>\nDogwood &#8211; Forsythia<br \/>\nGooseberry &#8211; Holly<br \/>\nHoneysuckle &#8211; Philadelphus<br \/>\nRose &#8211; Viburnum<br \/>\nWillow<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Peiris Leaves at MVUF by brianpettinger, \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7976317441\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8171\/7976317441_1dd095c9de.jpg\" alt=\"Leaves\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Step by Step Guide<\/strong><br \/>\nSelect a length of stem that was produced last year. Remove with a straight cut just below a leaf joint.<br \/>\nCuttings can be 6-12 inches long. Discard the young thin tip.<br \/>\nOn a warm bright site make a slit to a spades depth and add some gritty sand.<br \/>\nBury half the cutting, firm the soil and water well.<br \/>\nLeave the cuttings to the end of the year to grow good roots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other January Jobs<\/strong><br \/>\nPut several cuttings around a plant-pot and keep in the cold greenhouse<br \/>\nWash clean and sort all pots.<br \/>\nTake chrysanthemum cuttings<br \/>\nKeep greenhouse and plants tidy to avoid mould.<br \/>\nSow hardy annuals in greenhouse.<br \/>\nWater sparingly but do not allow plants to dry out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January Root Cuttings of Perennials<\/strong><br \/>\nOriental Poppies &#8211; Verbascum<br \/>\nDicentra &#8211; Sea Holly<br \/>\nEchinacea &#8211; Acanthus<br \/>\nCrambe &#8211; Rhus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvuf.org.uk\/garden\/\">MVUF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January is a good month to take hardwood cuttings including . Buddleia &#8211; Currants Dogwood &#8211; Forsythia Gooseberry &#8211; Holly Honeysuckle &#8211; Philadelphus Rose &#8211; Viburnum Willow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}