Forsythia are very low maintance and easy to start from cuttings...last summer I snipped a few branches from my neighbours bush, I put them in a bucket of water and well, I know it seems too easy, but I just left them there for a year, making sure the bucket never ran dry, that's it. Only one of the four branches grew roots but that's OK, I'll snip some more this year, in the bucket I place all sorts of cuttings, some take some don't, but it's so effortless that it'w worth a try.
This is my "cuttings bucket", at the back of the house, out of sight and the hot sun. I have a cutting from an unknown bush which growns outside my diner but love the berries...I hope it roots!
As you can see the forsythia grew quite a large root ball over winter.
An a bonus...a new shoot.
I planted the cutting in some compost and new soil at the edge of the yard hoping to create a privacy fence.
The hot dry summer may kill your new cuttings so it's best to plant cuttings in the spring and fall as new plants need lots of water.
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Hi Margaret, This might be Cotoneaster. Here's a link to some info about it: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/139749/cotoneaster
How do you know if a plant will grow from a cutting? Do all plants, or only some kinds? - Margy
Margy, I know about some plants just by talking to other people. When I was in Britannia Beach I started a rose from a cutting and a local gardener also had a cutting bucket, when she pruned, she would just put her cuttings in water and just waited, didn't cost her anything to try, which I what mostly do. I found this link which you might find very helpfup=l..http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/cepublications/pnw0152/pnw0152.html
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