Another borrowed vase today, a sweet tiny posy of little chrysanthemums on a table in a Vietnam restaurant. My excuse is unpacking, jet lag, and a full on day catching up at work. To make up for this cheating I have pictures of my own chrysanthemum cuttings from bought cut flowers.
Months ago when I was whinging about the lack of selection in chrysanthemums available to buy Christina suggested that I try taking cuttings from potted plants. I couldn’t find much in the way of potted plants so I thought I would try cut flowers.
After cutting off most of the leaves, I photographed the remaining flowers so I could remember what they were, but of course didn’t lable them. There are some alive in each of the 4 pots so I have some of both anyway. They are both quite small flowers, similar to the ones in the posy.
It seemed like a bit of a long shot that they would grow, since they had likely been sitting in water for quite a while by the time I bought them at the supermarket, but after sitting out in the rain for a few months they are definitely looking like surviving.
Thanks to Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for facilitating ‘in a Vase on Monday’ where you can share your own flowers or just enjoy others.
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Well done Cath, and you’ve found those lovely green ones; if I could only grow one Chrysanthemum that’s the one I would grow.
Thanks, yes that’s the one I was most envious of. I do hope that it flowers – there may be a reason why they don’t sell them in nurseries.
Congratulations on growing your chrysanthemums from cuttings.
Thanks! I really thought that it might be a long shot, but I suppose chrysanthemums are very accomodating that way, similar to hydrangeas. I have had hydrangeas grow from prunings put through the shredder and spread out as mulch.
Oh well done for this – the green one looks a bit like Anastasia Green which Sarah Raven has on her website and which I jad last year but it didn’t manage to flower 😦 LIke Christina, if I was only going to grow one successfully that’s the one I would like!
Oh, that’s great to have a name for it. Do you think the plant was too young to flower? Or do you think these might be hothouse only beauties?
I’m impressed that you successfully took your own cuttings, Cathy. But I suppose if I’d had no other recourse I might attempt the same. It’ll be wonderful to see them all bloom at the end of the summer!
I do hope so! It may be that these green ones are tricky in the garden, but I’ve seen them in other people’s vases so it must be possible.
Beautiful chrysanths… but let me get this straight, you grew them from cuttings from supermarket flowers?! More detail please! Did you simple take sections of stem and use root powder?
I didn’t use root powder, but just took sections of stem and unflowered side shoots as soon as I got the flowers home, and put them in pots of compost on the porch.
They were bunches with very long stems so there was a lot of material for cuttings. About a third of them grew. I was a bit dubious – it was evening so the flowers must have been cut for at least a day or two.
I will most certainly give it a go! Plants are miraculous, the way they grow from cuttings. If only we could do that with clothes and shoes…
I’m sure that day will come 🙂
I love those green ones!
I do too. There is something so fresh and cheeky about them.
That green one is really lovely and great to mix with other colours
I’m hopeful that I will get flowers, I do think they will look good with quite a things.
They will indeed
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