This morning our gardening group gave away a lot of cuttings to a family nearby. We had been nurturing the plants over summer. We also gave away plants that my mother no longer wants.
Gardening can be an incredibly cheap hobby if you know a bit about plants. Many gardeners have piles of black plastic pots they no longer want and some plants like pelargoniums (geraniums) are easy to grow from cuttings. I pick up cheap potting soil from a supermarket as the easy to grow plants don't really care about what they grow in.
@melanie Gardening requires a lot of hope doesn't it?
I am nursing a rhododendron cutting that is probably 5 years old. It only grows during autumn. This year it has grown a couple of tiny shoots at the base (if you expand the photo you can just see them). I am looking forward to the year it flowers. It is a cutting from my mother's garden and has beautiful orange flowers (see the right-hand photo). It is a Vireya Rhodedendron 'Simbu Sunset'.
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