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I agree, root cuttings are more than a little "magical! I'm not sure just which plants will do well from root cuttings - how many can members suggest?
Quote from: Diane Whitehead on January 20, 2019, 02:59:29 AMDicentra spectabilis. I haven't taken root cuttings deliberately, but if I transplant one, it continues growing from the roots that were inadvertently left behind.
Dicentra spectabilis. I haven't taken root cuttings deliberately, but if I transplant one, it continues growing from the roots that were inadvertently left behind.
Some peonies will grow from root cuttings, notably for me Paeonia peregrina and the cultivar 'Coral Charm'
I didn’t realise any peonies grew from root cuttings. I wonder if all the lactiflora cvs grow from root cuttings? And what other species might...?
Not sure that many/any straight lactiflora cultivars will grow from cuttings. 'Coral Charm' has P. peregrina in its ancestry (Wissing, U.S.A., 1964; P. lactiflora x P. peregrina 'Otto Fröbel') which is presumably where that tendency to form adventitious buds on pieces of root has come from.