{"id":4390,"date":"2009-08-02T06:09:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2009-08-02T06:09:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:09:17","slug":"hebe-shrub-from-cuttings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/hebe-shrub-from-cuttings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hebe Shrub from Cuttings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2598\/3752077356_91d10e7ed5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This purple Hebe is flowering about 2&#8217;6&#8243; high in a compact format. I would like to make a low hedge of Hebe (Veronica)\u00c2\u00a0 to breakup the outline of a large border and this variety amongst many others suits me well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Hebe Cuttings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now is a good time to take a series of cuttings to root this Autumn and be ready to transplant next spring.<\/li>\n<li>You can pull off a 4inch shoot leaving a bit of a heel and pot it in sharp compost or soil with some sand added.<\/li>\n<li>I cut with a knife\u00c2\u00a0 or take my cuttings with secateurs if I am busy.<\/li>\n<li>Trim off the bottom leaves and try get a cutting with the wood just beginning to harden at the base as this summers green wood may not root as easily.<\/li>\n<li>Take more cuttings than you need and if some fail it won&#8217;t be a problem. If you have too many plants you can always find a happy home for these flowering shrubs.<\/li>\n<li>Theoretically you should use cuttings from unflowered branches but I find so much floral profusion that it is hardly worth seeking them out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This purple Hebe is flowering about 2&#8217;6&#8243; high in a compact format. I would like to make a low hedge of Hebe (Veronica)\u00c2\u00a0 to breakup the outline of a large border and this variety amongst many others suits me well. Hebe Cuttings Now is a good time to take a series of cuttings to root this Autumn and be ready to transplant next spring. You can pull off a 4inch shoot leaving a bit of a heel and pot it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/hebe-shrub-from-cuttings\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs","tag-cuttings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","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=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}