How to take Nepeta Cuttings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ธ.ค. 2024
- Nepeta is a wonderful plant that is easy to grow, has a long flowering period and is adored by the bees! 🐝 Having one plant is nice but it’s so easy to take cuttings and produce lots more plants for free which means that you can create more impact and give the ‘wow’ factor in your garden. This video shows you just how easy it is, running through each stage from taking cuttings through to planting it out in the garden. When your plants start to fade, watch my video ‘How to care for nepeta’ which shows you how to cut it back to encourage it to flower again.
This was absolutely perfect because you took us all the way through rooting the cuttings to planting them out into the garden. Thank you!
Glad you found it helpful
I recently did this with lavender with good success, but i actually prefer Nepita because of its easy care. Thanks for the lesson, we'll be giving it a go this week.
I think I will do a few lavender cuttings too as mine is getting a bit woody and could do with being replaced. Thanks for watching
Jenny
Thank you Jenny. I love the effect you have achieved by planting Nepeta en masse. It looks stunning and a real “bee magnet” as well 🐝
It’s great you sprayed with BTK! The hedges and nepeta are gorgeous! Thanks for the tip on cuttings! 🥰🌸🇨🇦
Thank You so much. I want the lavender look behind my boxwood but mine always acts like teens > long legs due to a high wall that blocks sun from after midday.
Thank You for your videos. Plain down to earth easy and understandable advice and techniques. And I steal with the eye from South Africa.
Enjoy every day in Murphy’s beautiful garden.
Thank you so much
Great video and well worth watching.
@@eileenshanahan1521 Thank you
How marvelous! Again, your Nepeta border is beautiful. Thank you for showing us how to economize our gardens by propagating the Nepeta. I’ve wondered how to take cuttings. I’m planning on purchasing a Nepeta & using your technique to make many out of one original plant for my courtyard garden I’ve had to redo. Good to hear your rabbit problem has resolved. I had a good chuckle when you were talking about Allister & his nail gun & when you were talking about the Nepeta and said “seems a bit mean but off with their heads!” Love your humor! Thanks again for the tips on cuttings & how to have bushier plants!
Thanks Gina, hope you have great success!
Jenny, I totally agree!! I personally feel that growing plants from seed or propagation is a huge part of what makes gardening fun, challenging and exciting. It just makes the whole gardening adventure the most rewarding. Not to mention how much we learn from our successes and failures.
Exactly 👍🏻
Thanks so much, my dear friend for another great video. I really enjoyed it. You did a lot of great garden tips.
Thank you so much
Thank you for the tip about positioning around the outside of the pot :) Great video!
This was so helpful, thank you Jenny! I will try this with my Nepeta Cat's Pajamas, a shorter Nepeta variety. I have a row bordering my bed of my roses and they were pretty expensive to buy. 👩🏻🌾
Great, so pleased you found it helpful, give it a go!
I have found dividing nepeta and replanting also very easy in spring or fall if you are tight on room.
Yes, another great way to get more plants
Yours is the FIRST video I've seen that explains all and why well. Thanks. (Also for the TopBox vid - we're surrounded here in France with native box that has been lightly touched with blight. We're just waiting for a calm sunny day to treat them. Of we lose the box, we lose the garden. . .)
Thank you so much. The Topbuxus is such a brilliant product, my box wasn’t looking very good but now it’s beautiful and no blight in sight. Although I’ve been using Topbuxus for several years, doing the research for the video and speaking with the company helped me understand how it works and how best to use it and it all makes sense now! Hope you can recover yours too
Jenny
@@MurphysGarden Gosh! I thought it was new. Vive social media (and you!)
That blue color is so delightful.
I've had great success growing nepeta, but I've never tried propagation. One unknown variety in my garden is so pretty and stays at a manageable size I may have to experiment with that. The 'Junior Walkers Low' I planted last year has already grown to epic size. I'm nervous to see what it'll do next year.
My latest favorite is 'Chartreuse On the Loose.' Love that bright foliage.
Give it a go, it’s so easy! I haven’t heard of Chartreuse on the loose, what a great name! Thanks for watching
Jenny
@@MurphysGarden
That's a new variety (2024) from Proven Winners. I don't know if that brand is available in your area.
Well done!!
Morning to the Borderlands
What I do with these bushy plants - citronella, salvia, catnip etc is basically split them with a piping Spade or flat ended trowel.
Strip some of the leaves back, stick it in where you want it and you're done. Usually you'll get a 90% success rate.
Re lavender - we have had a foot high hedge in lavender running the side of our drive. (Box hedge style).
What we are in the process of doing is replacing the lavender with rosemary . Grows tighter - our varieties have a winter blossom and of course the scent.
We will grow both and as the rosemary takes develops they should provide a double bluming hedge.
Sounds beautiful!
I love watching your garden come together! Question. I’m going to London with my husband next may and would love to attend the Chelsea flower show. Tickets are sold out. Is there any place we can get tickets? Thank you
Hi there, I usually buy mine around Christmas, I think the sold out is for 2024, I don’t think they are available yet (I just had a quick look on the website). Don’t worry you will be able to get them, leave it a bit longer and look again on the RHS website in the autumn, definitely go, you will love it! Perhaps I’ll see you there!
Thanks for this 💐
Thank you
Amazing! Thank you so much.
Glad you liked it!
What should I do with (rooted) nepeta cuttings in 4 inch pots now? Will they survive in the pot outside? Should I wait til they die back (freeze) and store them in the garage?Just not sure.
If they are filling their pots, then pot on to the next size. Just leave them outside in their pots over winter and then cut back in the spring, the foliage will offer a little protection but they are hardy.
How far apart do you plant your nepeta like you’ve done in the hedge? It looks wonderfully full! 😍
I planted them in a staggered row about 30cm (1 ft apart). Hope that help, thanks for watching
@@MurphysGarden thank you! I took my cuttings today as per your instructions so fingers crossed we have lots of lovely plants soon 😁
🙏🏻 thank you- how long in the pot before they are ready for planting in the ground?
Also- can you do the same with salvia?
Mine took about 3 months, just check you can see roots at the bottom before you tip it out. Yes, do exactly the same with salvias, roses and so many other things!
How long do they take to root? How often would you water? Does Lavender Hidcote root easier than Walkers Low? What about putting cuttings into a glass of water by the window?
We took them at the end of March, and about 6 weeks later they were ready to plant out. I find nepeta is a lot easier to take cuttings from than lavender, it roots so much quicker. I’ve never taken cuttings from nepeta by sticking them in a glass of water but worth a go, I’ve done it with houseplants very successfully when I just need a couple of new plants but for mass cuttings I find this easier.
I dont have a greenhouse or coldframe, where can i put the cuttings to over-winter?
Put them somewhere sheltered out of the wind, you could sink the pots in some soil like in a veg bed so they don’t get blown around in the winter weather.
Hello! Thank you for this and all your other very informative videos. I have just made some cuttings according to your guide and was wondering how long it should take until I can plant them out? Thank you again! 😊
Ah… I’ve just seen you’ve already answered this in another comment. So 6 weeks it is then!
Leave them for about six weeks, then look and see if any roots have formed, you may see them coming through the bottom of your pot or tip them out to see. Don’t be tempted to look too soon! When that happens, depending on the weather, repot in to a bigger pot or plant in the spot where you want them. If it’s dry and hot it’s best to keep them in a pot which you can keep well watered and then plant out in the autumn or spring. They will die right back over the winter but will return again next spring.
@@MurphysGarden Thank youuuu !
Do you need to use rooting hormones for this Nepeta cutting method? Thanks!
I used to always use hormone rooting powder but now I don’t bother and I have good success without. If you’ve got it then no harm in using it but if not don’t buy it especially.
@@MurphysGarden thank you!
This is catnip right?
Beautiful nepeta, its a pollinators dream. We made two new flower beds in autumn 2020 and we dug up plants we had in other flowerbeds and split them to fill in the new flowerbeds. We also take cuttings and grow plants from seed in case we lose any over the winter.
It makes quite a show when plant’s together 👍🏻
This is catnip right?
This is catnip right?
Catmint and catnip both belong to the mint family in the genus Nepeta. They both have square stems that are typical features of mint plants, and they produce spikes of tiny, two-lipped flowers that are a valuable food source for pollinators.
There are a few differences between catmint and catnip, catmint has a tidier appearance than catnip, growing in slightly sprawling, compact mounds. Catmint's foliage is grey-green in color, and it has a lacy look. For many weeks throughout the summer, these perennials produce pretty spikes of flowers, blooming purple, white, or pink petals.
Common varieties of catmint include Nepeta racemosa ‘Walker’s Low,’ which blooms lavender-blue flowers, Nepeta subsessilis ‘Sweet Dreams,' which sprouts pink petals with burgundy bracts, and Nepeta x faassenii 'Six Hills Giant,’ which also produces lavender-blue blooms but grows much taller than the other two types.
Catnip (Nepeta cataria) is a vigorous perennial plant with a somewhat weedy appearance. It has a rangy branching shape and forms 3-foot-tall drifts of gray-green foliage. Its leaves can be triangular or oval-shaped, and they have toothed edges that give the plant a jagged appearance. Small spikes of white flowers appear here and there between spring and fall, but the blooms aren't very showy.
In addition to Nepeta cataria, other varieties of catnip include Nepeta citriodora, which has a lemony fragrance, and Nepeta parnassica, which blooms light pink flowers.
Give catmint a try if you haven’t already!