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Ya Mama’s Blog
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Planting Now
There’s no time like winter to plant trees and shrubs, especially those you want to dig up and move. Container grown woody plants can be planted anytime, of course, but you give them ample time to put down roots before spring growth starts if you plant now. I’m putting in abelia, sassafras tree, and a shrub to be named later…
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Propagate This!
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25
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Rooting Media
While this title may make some chuckle with thoughts of cloning journalists, the word ‘media’ in this case simply refers to more than one kind of material, or medium. The term ‘medium’ is used when no actual soil is present in the material used to root or grow plants. Now I’ll confess that I do root woody plants like fig and hydrangea by simply sticking them into the ground next to the parent tree or shrub, but that’s a blog for another day.
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