What are your easiest cuttings?

[DiddlyWiddly]

Ones that you can just snip and stick in the dirt or water and they grow?
Without any growth hormone, plastic bags, propagates and other fuss.

Gooseberries are mine.

Succulents and geranium

Ah yes, I have some succulents from leaf cuttings too!
Mine are indoor plants

Looking at the things that I’ve propagated from my old garden, and not including plants that I split, I’ve got:

Persicaria Red Dragon - in water, roots appear in days. Haven’t tried it with any other Persicarias
Cuttings in soil: Dianthus Mrs Sinkins, Forsythia, Salix Lanata, Photinia, Laurels, Deutzia, Philadelphus, Phlomis (but that took ages and ages), Weigela, Viburnum, Caryopteris
Lots of shrubs by layering: Jasmine, Honeysuckle, Hypericum, Artemisia Abrotanum, Cotinus (took ages)
I also look for plants that work by runners: Ajuga, Osteospermum, Vinca

Anything I used with rooting powder tended to die so I just stick in a pot of compost in a fairly shaded spot and mostly forget about them.

Geraniums always go well for me.

Lavender on the other hand always dies and it doesn't matter what I do.

Indoor varieties of Tradescantia all root very easily. Hoya and spider plants also easily rooted.

Salvia, Fuchsia, crikey even roses are relatively easy so long as they don't dry out.

Lonicera nitida.

My Osteospermum cuttings always take without fail - and need minimal no care at all!

Salvia Amistaad and its relatives will take in water now, the other salvias are better in a gritty seed compost.

Geraniums will take now but are easier in autumn and overwintered .

Fuchsia in water as soon as you have some 3-4 inch 75/100mm shoots - also ajuga (bugle) mint & lemon balm. You might also get hydrangea to root in water, but it's easier to take semi-ripened wood cuttings (where the stem isn't very bendy anymore, but not so stiff it breaks) later in the year; cut 3inch (about 75mm) non-flowering shoots on a slant between leaves and push 4-6 into gritty seed and cutting compost (add perlite or fine grit if it's not gritty enough).

Heuchera cuttings strike well from about September, (but may take earlier) take a sideshoot with 2-3 leaves and stem about 50- 75mm long and pop into gritty seed/cuttings compost. I usually use a 13-15cm pot and pop in about 5-6 cuttings. As with all these plants don't crowd or you'll be prone to mildew.

Dianthus and carnations are a doddle, take longish about - 100mm - 130mm non flowering shoots and pop halfway into sandy compost.

I always struggle with cuttings. My most successful are always rooted in water first. However, I took some hardwood cuttings from the prunings of a jostaberry (?) on our new allotment. They have all taken...now what to do with them all!

Sedum spectabile (renamed Hylotelephium spectabile but Incan't see that catching on). Stick in water or compost or just back in the soil.

Perlagoniums, Spider plants

And I accidentally found that basil roots easily in water, when I bunged some that had broken off in a glass to keep it fresh.

Roses were ridiculously easy.

I’ve got one doing fabulously from a pruning I just stick in the ground next to it’s dad.

Hydrangea, bay, fuschia, black currant. Wiegela, lilac, succulents, sedum, geranium.

By division is also very easy for hardy geranium, asters, lobelia.

I’ve found it much easier in my new garden, there’s a corner that isn’t too cold or too hot, nicely sheltered...they don’t get too wet or dry and just get on with it. I think that has a lot to do with it.

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Honeysuckle

By "geraniums" are people meaning Pelargoniums?

Apart from Pelargoniums, the ones that are trouble free for me are:
Mint
Fuchsia
Grape Vine
Fig
Rosemary
Bay

No geraniums (aka 'drainials' thanks to one of my children when young) are the brightly coloured half hardy summer flowering ones, can be done now to increase stock or in the frost free greenhouse or on a cool windowsill come September to overwinter.

Pelargoniums are perennials, hard as old boots, take cuttings easily as well, from now to October ideally in a cold frame, but I've found in a frost free corner is good too.

Tomato armpits.
And blackcurrants.

Oh, and rosemary.

Has anyone managed with bamboo or flowering red currant? There is some growing wild that I keep looking at enviously ...

No geraniums (aka 'drainials' thanks to one of my children when young) are the brightly coloured half hardy summer flowering ones, can be done now to increase stock or in the frost free greenhouse or on a cool windowsill come September to overwinter
No, those are pelargoniums?
Used to be called zonal geraniums then the name changed to pelargonium I thought?

Pelargoniums are perennials, hard as old boots, take cuttings easily as well, from now to October ideally in a cold frame, but I've found in a frost free corner is good too
Hardy geraniums are what I always thought to be the perennials?
Like the wild geranium and geranium Rozanne.
Simple, open flowers in shades of blue and white and pink?

I'm confused too, Diddly!

Diddly has the geraniums (cranesbills) and pelargoniums (storksbills) the right way round. But of course, the latter are very commonly called geraniums although they've been separate genera since 1789, not one of the new changes in classification which bedevil plant naming.

I've not tried cuttings of geraniums, they're generally easy to propagate by division.

@DiddlyWiddly

No geraniums (aka 'drainials' thanks to one of my children when young) are the brightly coloured half hardy summer flowering ones, can be done now to increase stock or in the frost free greenhouse or on a cool windowsill come September to overwinter No, those are pelargoniums? Used to be called zonal geraniums then the name changed to pelargonium I thought?

Pelargoniums are perennials, hard as old boots, take cuttings easily as well, from now to October ideally in a cold frame, but I've found in a frost free corner is good too
Hardy geraniums are what I always thought to be the perennials?
Like the wild geranium and geranium Rozanne.
Simple, open flowers in shades of blue and white and pink?

Diddly - yes, you are correct.

Linnaeus lumped together into the genus Geranium the cranesbills, storksbills and the related plants we now know as Pelargoniums. They were separated into the genus Pelargonium in 1789, so why gardeners continued to call the "geraniums" into the 1950s is beyond me.

We have 30 species of native or naturalised Geranium (cranesbill); some of the garden varieties have been selected from UK natives. We also have several Erodium (storksbill) species.

Has anyone managed with bamboo Bamboo is a grass. You'd have to propagate it from a bit of rooting stolon. I don't thing the upright stems have the ability to generate roots.

Sorry Errol, crossposted.

Errol Except that its Erodium which are called storksbill - I've not heard it used for Pelargonium . If it is, it's just another example of why it causes less confusion to use the scientific names.

And now I guess we have to ask why Erodium is known as storksbill the same as pelargonium... the former should be heronsbill. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erodium#Taxonomy