free box hedging

[ACE]

I don't like box she said. Can you take them to the tip. Yea right!



Nice healthy plants with big root balls.

[ACE]

[saddad]

We've done some from cuttings, it has taken a bit longer but they are still cheap..
;D

[cambourne7]

I would love a box hedge around my front garden but its so expensive, how easy is it to take cuttings? and how long do they take?

[Ceratonia]

It's not difficult, but  S-L-O-W. Box are slow to root and slow to grow. That's why they're so expensive to buy.

August/September is the time to do it.

I took about 50 cuttings a couple of years ago. Now thinking I should've done a few hundred  ::)

ACE - did you ask your client if she had any old paintings, jewellery etc that she didn't like either?

[cambourne7]

how long are the cuttings and do you need to use rooting powder.

[Palustris]

I did a load of Buxus microphylla aurea in Sept. They were about 4 inches long 'cos it is a dwarf plant anyway, no rooting hormone, and done in my usual pure sand bed propagator, no heat. They are ready for potting up now.

[cambourne7]

ah - no propigator?

[Palustris]

If you buy Box from a place near us, what you get is 10 rooted cuttings in  standard compost, in the pot in which they were inserted as cuttings. I can see no need for  fancy equipment.

[cambourne7]

great i think i might pop down to garden centre and pick up some plants and have a got at taking some cuttings :-)

Want to alternate box, lavander and rosemary.

I need to measure how long the row is as well

[Marymary]

Lidls did have them for £3.99 for 6.  Ours have sold out now - I bought one pack - they seem good plants.