Marie Staunton

So years ago,

People gifted roses when somebody bought a house.

That was kind of the thing.

And you had, you know, beautiful rose on your house.

And then maybe the house was sold or getting going to be sold down the road, you know, when the parents have passed on or whatever.

But you still want a bit of that plant and you can have a bit of that planting and actually have a clone of it by taking a cutting office.

And maybe three or four cuttings, depending on how many siblings there are.

And then each one gets gifted one of those cuttings and then they grow it on.

Hopefully.

If it works.

Now, I don't know about in your house, but you know yourself.

So there's a lot of new growth at the moment, new fresh growth.

So new fresh growth, you can do it twice.

You can do it in the dormant season, which is February to, or sorry, November to February, or you can do it now as things really are shooting off.

So new cuttings, new growth will have lots of cell action, so they'll be quicker to root, basically.

Mm-hmm.

So it's kind of pencil length.

Take off a number of the lower leaves.

You can use a bit of hormone rooting powder or honey.

Dip it in the little cutting into the base of that or into the honey and then put it into a mix of compost and horticultural sand.