More Plants!

On Wednesday Jan. 28th, a new shipment of unrooted cuttings arrived by Purolater. Over the next 2 days, approximately 25,000 plant cuttings were dipped, by hand, into rooting compound and stuck into transplanting soil. That's why we call it "sticking cuttings" because that's what we do! :) Some of the plant varieties that we "stuck" were Bidens, Calibrachoa (also known as Million Bells), Sweet potato vine, trailing petunias and phlox, scaevola and lots and lots of Bacopa...that little white trailing that everyone loves! The first picture is Bacopa. These are Bidens, the ferny, tiny yellow flowered plant we use in hanging baskets mostly.

Geraniums, a more common plant that some of you like to take cuttings of yourself and overwinter. There is such satisfaction in growing and keeping alive a plant in your home!

Here is a picture of the cutting without roots. This is Monday and it was probably stuck Friday so obviously no roots starting yet. The plants have perked up though and are crisp from the timely mist of water they receive each day. I will try to keep tabs on these and take another photo in next week.