It turns the very lightest shade of blue!! I took a lot of hydrangea cuttings last year – including some from the big one we have in our front garden and I wondered about changing the colours by changing the soil type and as they were in posts, I thought I could do a test and feed one pot leftover coffee grinds.
The result was ….. unimpressive!!
All out hydrangeas are white or slightly tinted, not deep colours so I don’t know what that means. I can’t remember what the flowers were like on the bushes I took the cuttings from, but next I will look for bushes with deep coloured flowers and see how they take and what the flowers look like.
Unsuprisingly I’ve got some prickly pear cuttings which are growing well. These little pads popped up over the weekend. I fully expect to see them out grow the pot in the next day or so!!! Having learned how fast they grow from the ones we had in Extremadura, I intend to keep these in pots and not let them loose in the garden, unless we use them for fencing – which used to be very common as they are nature’s barbed wire!
I actually don’t do well with cactuses. The one in the pic below is 20 years old – and is still the same size as the cuttings I took above which are just minutes (ok, weeks) old!!! And I don’t think it has grown more than a couple of cms over the 20 years.
It is at last though producing a few shoots so I’ll see how they go and maybe take those off to root.
These are my bournemouth cuttings. Daisy is staring at me trying to persuade me to throw a ball!
This is our avacado tree and I am glad the lady in the garden store told me to expect the leaves to change colour and fall off in June as otherwise I might have worried. Although there are a couple of massive avacado trees opposite us so I will keep an eye on those too to see what to expect.
and here’s a pic of Primrose by the rose cuttings I took last year. These are climbing roses and the aim will be to use those as fencing too. These grow wild so I hope they will grow well and be easier to maintain than the probably box hedge which we have now which is overun with brambles and is part dead so I guess we’ll need to dig it up (which is why we are thinking about the roses as fencing – to grow them along wires to make a fence – with some sort of netting to animal proof it).
