Lazy shrub propagation

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I’ve got some shrubs in pots that are too big and I want to start anew with them in the ground. Hebe and euonymus. Can I take cuttings and just stick them in the soil (multiples) where I’d like them to grow, or is that far too unlikely that they’d take?

You could try this in autumn. I think it would be to hit and dry to work at this time of year. I would get a pot and stick some gritty compost in and try that during summer. Stick a clear bag over the top to keep the moisture in and put the bottom in a tray with some water in.

Roses and hydrangeas that would probably work - in the autumn.

Hebes and euonymus I'd be tempted to either just buy new, they are cheap enough, it'll be quicker and they'll establish well - or put the big ones in the ground in autumn and water them in well. But hold off till the autumn. and water well if it's dry.

Thank you, I was hoping for an answer that said it will likely work, but clearly it won’t! The hebe is too big and straggly to plant, it doesn’t look great but the flowers are good for bees. I probably should just buy a new baby one in the autumn. It just feels so wrong to throw out a perfectly good plant, the poor thing.

Although I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to try in a couple of months time. If the cuttings don’t take, I haven’t lost anything.

That would be my attitude.
I'm doing hardly any gardening at the moment - it's just too hot and dry for anything to take.

I had 2 hebes that had got too big, weren't brilliant looking and needed to go. Put them on facebook and there was a fight to get them.