Propagate Lavender from Cuttings: Everyone Can Grow a Garden (2023) #35

Excellent, easy to follow video with GREAT visuals! Thanks so much for sharing. 😊 Now I have to watch your hydrangea video!

Another great video! I bought 6 lavender plants for our new cabin, never growing lavender before, and they were gorgeous. I wanted to plant around 30 more around our acre but the cost was prohibitive. You’ve saved me a bunch of money.

If I’m out of commercial rooting hormone, use regular old aspirin.. I crush it up or soak in warm water and dip. Aspirin is made from the weeping willow tree.. has natural rooting properties.

I've tried propagating in both soil and water and with and without root hormone for the soil cuttings. I've had the most success propagating cuttings in the early autumn and leaving them in water until mid January then transplanting the cuttings to seed cells. Woody bases were less successful than green cuttings using this method. When the roots fill up the seed sells, I up pot and by that time of the year, it is usually warm enough to move them into my greenhouse. By the end of the summer, they are in the ground and fully established. By doing this every year, you will have a lush field for decades; pulling out the excessively woody plants and replacing them with seedlings.

I tried lavender from Burgess magazine. They don't like wet feet good drainage. I made a candle with some, with my bee wax (and a candle b/c I didn't have enough wax from combs.) It didn't work out so good. Zone 3b. But, I was excited and learned. It's very aromatic when you roll it in hands.

Thank you for giving me the inspiration to take cuttings of my lavender to propagate. I loved the video. 😃

Im so excited that I found your channel. Your videos are so right to the point and inspirational. Thank You

Great job Susan. I have rooted many trees. Figs are easy, Rose of Sharon and Forsythia. I am dancing today. It is raining, really raining. Sept 14 finally it's been months. 70 degrees not 107. Yippee. Happy dance. Hope you have a great week.

Great topic Susan, thank you. Looking forward to the hydrangea and more next year!

The lavender field is enviable! So Munstead and Grosso winter over for you—I will take note. I believe I have Munstead. There was a lavender farm near us and always wanted to stop and ask what variety they have. I think it is the French varieties that don’t like our winter. I have been covering with sticks and leaves in winter. This I will try today and I have a boxwood I will try. Can’t find my rooting powder so have to see if they have it locally. I have some Blaze maple cuttings I’m trying again. I had some leftover sand and made a mound on north side of shed and flip a clear tote over. I cut the leaves in half to prevent too much water loss on the plants. I didn’t have the root powder as heard it’s not always necessary. Most are still green weeks after so I think I may be successful this time. I’ve been more vigilant at keeping them moist. It was a wonderful tree and it died from a frost crack because I didn’t cover the trunk in winter. It would be so nice to have maples as we mainly have oaks and cedars and I want other leaves for my compost And some Color! I want to winter over a white sage and will try this method as they seem close to the same liking for growing conditions. I know neither like wet feet.😊. The white sage looked so nice with its silvery white leaves next to blue forget me nots. And the smell is nice also. I’m pretty sure they are only hardy to Z7. Wish I was closer as I would love a snippet of the Strawberry and Cream hydrangea you have😊. I also wish the deer wouldn’t eat everything so I could plant outside a fence. It’s relentless here as the area is like a desert and we are the salad bar. Thank you for showing this! It will be so much easier than from seed. WI, Z5a. We had 40* this morning. Oh, about the Blaze maple, do you know if there is a way to stop a tree from sending up suckers?

Susan, I've never been successful growing lavender because I tend to overwater it, however, I have propagated a number of hydrangeas this year. All I did was take cuttings and strip most of the leaves (I cut the top leaves in half) then I stuck them directly into a raised bed (I didn't use rooting hormone). They have all put on new growth so I'm confident that they are rooted. I'm going to leave them outside in that raised bed for the winter and see if they are alive in the spring. Hopefully, this will work out for me. I may try a few lavender plants again next year. I hope you and Bill have a good weekend. ~Margie🤗💐🦋🐝

Hi , I’m going to try this on one lavender. Thank you

Hi, I tried to propagate two shrubs this summer. One was a viburnum and the other was Oregon grape. The viburnum dried out, but the other rooted nicely. I did not cover keep it under plastic though. I am going to keep trying and learning from my experiences. Thanks for sharing your learnings with us!

Hi Susan! I am so glad I found your channel! I’m down here in the lower Yakima Valley, (I know your from Spokane and some people up there don’t seem to know where that is😂) I have tried to grow lavender for about 5 yrs and I lose my plants EVERY YR! I have watched a ton of videos and read so much,I’ve tried rooting, I’ve bought so many plants every yr its ridiculous! I’ve mixed soil with pea gravel and sand and it works for a bit, but come fall they die😢😢 I make goat milk soap and I would love to grow my own lavender to put in it. Thank you for the video! I will try again this yr. I heard lavender grows better in poor soil? Maybe my soil is too rich and I water too much, I do plant them in a raised bed? Thanks again.❤

How great that you have a lavender patch, the pollinators must love you! I just discovered a little lavender plant the other day so need to move it once we are done with our rainy day today! There seem to be so many plants that you can propogate and it does save a ton of money! Love you use such high tech equipment! I know the time to set them out is zone dependent, but what month did you set yours out in the spring? Thanks for sharing this important video!

I began doing this too so fun! On the hydrangeas for three years now my hydrangeas have not flowered. The first year there were blooms after I bought it, but no year since. I don’t know the type of hydrangea it is so not sure how to take care of it. I believe I trimmed the dead bloom canes the first year and this may be the issue. I heard certain strains of hydrangea your suppose to leave the old wood as this is what they bloom from, and I’m not sure if that is the issue. But we also for the past three years had late frosts and it affected the plant and this year the deer got into my bed and ate much of the late spring leafing so I had to fence it and the plant came back nicely, but still no blooms :/

I tried this 2 years ago. I had mine in large pots, a window box, and some stuck & rooted into the ground, as an experiment. ( I live in New England) most wintered over perfectly! Conclusion, I don't think we need to shelter them but provide ample soil space ? insulation? for winter!

I’ll be trying this! The friend who’s plant I’ll take cuttings from is about an hour away. Should I add water to the baggie, or do you think it’ll be moist enough without? Thanks!

Hi! What temperature do they need to be kept at with grow lights? I was hoping I could put them in my greenhouse?Sue

I bought some Lavender plants in the spring,put them in 3 large pots, they grew lovely spread out nice and Tall but no heads they have no heads just foliage ,they are not in much sunlight could this be the reason,? Barry Willis.