Perfect. I was going to buy a holly from a garden centre and i thought i have two large bushes i can propagate one! But how? A quick search later and two of your very useful videos and i will be doing this tomorrow (not the same scale i only need one or two). Thank you 😊 all subscribed and will watch some of your back videos with interest.
Useful and helpful are these two holly cutting videos.👍 I wish to TRY to obtain just a small number of trees (not a hedge) from my 40+ year old YELLOW berry holly. We still have many berries every year but it was allowed to grow far too tall by previous owner. We too are on heavy clay. I don’t have to plant into existing lawn. Would there be any value in lining that initial spade cut with a soil / grit / compost mix? Would that help rooting (given that I’m only doing a small number of cuttings) Cheers
Hi. The gravel may help yes. And they will take in spade cut. I think the biggest learning point for me was that you may lose over 50% so I think double up. Good luck 😊🙏
Great vids, thank you for giving the full picture. Any advise where to get bare root English holly? Its expensive! You said on another vid this hedge moght save £100 to 150, more lije £1000! Side note there is a holly in my garden, in deep shade and nestled next to/under a big rhododendron, but growing fast. It ws heavily pruned to put another plant in, but it grew maybe two feet this year in deep shade. Looks like English holly but i wonder (previous owner planted it)
Thank you Turq. Appreciate this. I have used a company called best4hedging also hedgesdirect. They sell bareroot in the winter dormant period. You can pre order. Mark
Hi Abigail, sorry for the confusion. To clarify, I've done two videos on taking Holly cuttings. That was last year 2023. The ones in this video were the results of an earlier video which I made Oct 22. The ones planted directly into the ground had a success rate of 66%. I'm still waiting to see how the ones in the plastic pots have fared. Mark
Good job 👏 I planted a few after watching your video and they are doing well. I think Holly likes my clay soil because I often find a little Holly seedling growing here and there, maybe berries dropped by birds ?
@@MarksHouseandGardenUK they're quite slow, but I've got an idea for them later, so not needed as a hedge. Laurel was my fastest hedge, but it's very fast growing so needs a good prune. Did the job to separate me from the neighbours though 😂 and the blackbirds love to nest in it 😍
Thank you for this. I have many blue hollies and will do cuttings to grow over winter indoors. May I ask why you have all that thick grass growing around them?
Great follow-up. It's not fair to expect 6' of growth out of a cutting in just 10 months, though. I know, I'm impatient, too! 🤣😂 It's impressive to see they've grown that much root in so short a time. I'd say that they'd be at least 3' tall at the end of next summer, but that first year is when they have to develop the root system needed to support growth above ground. Thinking about it, though, I'm just like you - I want something to look at right now, not two years from now.
@@MarksHouseandGardenUK Amen! You've convinced me to buy a plant rather than try rooting one. I can always root a cutting, but waiting 2 or 3 years for it to grow big and proud.... ugh!
Perfect. I was going to buy a holly from a garden centre and i thought i have two large bushes i can propagate one! But how? A quick search later and two of your very useful videos and i will be doing this tomorrow (not the same scale i only need one or two). Thank you 😊 all subscribed and will watch some of your back videos with interest.
Great job! I am going to try yew cuttings this year. Hopefully it works out as well as your hedge!
Let me know. Thanks. Mark
Useful and helpful are these two holly cutting videos.👍
I wish to TRY to obtain just a small number of trees (not a hedge) from my 40+ year old YELLOW berry holly.
We still have many berries every year but it was allowed to grow far too tall by previous owner.
We too are on heavy clay.
I don’t have to plant into existing lawn.
Would there be any value in lining that initial spade cut with a soil / grit / compost mix?
Would that help rooting (given that I’m only doing a small number of cuttings)
Cheers
Hi. The gravel may help yes. And they will take in spade cut. I think the biggest learning point for me was that you may lose over 50% so I think double up. Good luck 😊🙏
Hi, great videos! Very informative.
Did you check the percentage of hardwood versus softwood cuttings that survived?
Hi Frank. Thank you. I'm afraid I didn't. Overall it was about two thirds. But I can't classify any further. Mark
Great vids, thank you for giving the full picture. Any advise where to get bare root English holly? Its expensive! You said on another vid this hedge moght save £100 to 150, more lije £1000!
Side note there is a holly in my garden, in deep shade and nestled next to/under a big rhododendron, but growing fast. It ws heavily pruned to put another plant in, but it grew maybe two feet this year in deep shade. Looks like English holly but i wonder (previous owner planted it)
Thank you Turq. Appreciate this. I have used a company called best4hedging also hedgesdirect. They sell bareroot in the winter dormant period. You can pre order. Mark
Perhaps try a plant identify application to check your existing plant. I know that an established root can grow Holly very quickly. Mark
In the original vid, you planted the holly in pots, what happened to those? Are they the same ones or did they not take?
Hi Abigail, sorry for the confusion. To clarify, I've done two videos on taking Holly cuttings. That was last year 2023. The ones in this video were the results of an earlier video which I made Oct 22. The ones planted directly into the ground had a success rate of 66%. I'm still waiting to see how the ones in the plastic pots have fared. Mark
Good job 👏 I planted a few after watching your video and they are doing well. I think Holly likes my clay soil because I often find a little Holly seedling growing here and there, maybe berries dropped by birds ?
Hi anna. That's good to hear. How quickly are yours growing out of interest?
@@MarksHouseandGardenUK they're quite slow, but I've got an idea for them later, so not needed as a hedge. Laurel was my fastest hedge, but it's very fast growing so needs a good prune. Did the job to separate me from the neighbours though 😂 and the blackbirds love to nest in it 😍
Thank you for this. I have many blue hollies and will do cuttings to grow over winter indoors. May I ask why you have all that thick grass growing around them?
Great follow-up. It's not fair to expect 6' of growth out of a cutting in just 10 months, though. I know, I'm impatient, too! 🤣😂
It's impressive to see they've grown that much root in so short a time. I'd say that they'd be at least 3' tall at the end of next summer, but that first year is when they have to develop the root system needed to support growth above ground.
Thinking about it, though, I'm just like you - I want something to look at right now, not two years from now.
Sometimes gardening is a lesson in patience isn't it? I don't think I quite there yet lol.
@@MarksHouseandGardenUK Amen! You've convinced me to buy a plant rather than try rooting one. I can always root a cutting, but waiting 2 or 3 years for it to grow big and proud.... ugh!
See it now🙂
Yup it's good isn't it? 😊