
Follow our guide to propagating your conifers and replace old tired specimens or make a new hedge.
Follow our guide to propagating your conifers and replace old tired specimens or make a new hedge.
Conifers bring structure and year-round interest to a garden. Cuttings can be taken from late summer to the end of autumn, but it's a slow process and can take almost a year for shoots to make roots. If you're planning ahead you can grow enough plants for a whole new hedge. All but the very slowest growing varieties of conifers will root from cuttings.
If you have a Leyland cypress or another variety of conifer hedge, you could use trimmings from hedge pruning as a source of cuttings material. When choosing material from variegated conifers make sure you pick shoots that match the colour of the parent plant and not a shoot that has reverted to green.
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