Daphne bholua seedling

[monocotman]

Hi,

I appear to have a small seedling growing about 18 inches from a flowering Daphne Bholua 'Jacqueline Postill'.
It is about a foot high and identical in leaf to the other.
Could it be a seedling or is it more likely to be a sucker?
If it is a seedling when is the best time to move it?

Thanks,

David

[Brian Ellis]

Highly likely to be a sucker, ours sends no end up and was a sucker taken from a friends originally.

[Melvyn Jope]

My experience too, the parent plant is now about 3 metres high and 2 wide and whilst smelling wonderful this time of year it does send up a lot of suckers. I must have pulled out twenty today when clearing up under the plant. As Brian suggests if you get a sucker with a bit of root they soon produce good plants.

[glynnffc]

Funny how things link up.
I seem to have spent the whole day trying to find some-one with this plant for sale, having seen the amazing plant  at Holeherd in the Lakes this week.
If anyone can spare a sucker,cutting or whatever i would be very grateful.
Glynn

PS I thought many of the plants were grafted.

[monocotman]

Thanks for the info.
how big do you leave the suckers before trying to move them?
I must admit I also thought that the 'JP' clone was grafted.
Good news that it isn't and that there is a ready source of new plants in the garden.
One of my plant fantasies is a hedge of 'JP' in a sheltered part of the garden,
Regards,
David

[David Nicholson]

Funny how things link up.
I seem to have spent the whole day trying to find some-one with this plant for sale, having seen the amazing plant  at Holeherd in the Lakes this week.
If anyone can spare a sucker,cutting or whatever i would be very grateful.
Glynn

PS I thought many of the plants were grafted.

Karen Junker lists it:-

http://www.junker.co.uk/frames.htm

though having said that her web site hasn't been updated recently, but it's a strong possibility

[glynnffc]

Thanks David, I, d found that as well, but she only has large plants and the "man anda van " delivery costs were considerably more than the plant.
Most places seem to keep a waiting list, so I might have to be patient and join  the queue.
Glynn

[David Nicholson]

Glynn, not sure where you live but you might be lucky and find a grafted plant in one of the larger garden centre chains. That's how I got mine a few years ago now though. I had to talk to it pretty severely to get it to flower at first but for the last couple of years it's been beautiful.

[monocotman]

Done a bit more research and there seem to be two sorts of plants of 'JP' available in the trade.
One sort is micro-propagated and the other grafted.
Only the micro -propagated plants sucker.
One source recommends severing the suckers well underground and leaving for 6 months
 for good roots to develop before transplanting.
Another web site states that the grafted plants flower more profusely than the micro-propagated plants
but are shorter lived.
David