This was very useful thank you!👌 our neighbour has one in their garden,and I'm taking a cutting today! I've never done it before though,this is the first time I've ever grown a garden,but I'm addicted to it now lol,we've only got a small garden though,so I'll need to be careful not to get to carried away with it!😆❤
Wonderful, and a timely find. My aunt just bought a Yaupon Holly, Ilex vomitoria, and I'm keen to try taking a cutting so I can root it. I've not tried a holly cutting before, but I'm very interested in growing native plants in an attempt to offset the damage we've done with all these non-native plants in our gardens. Plus, it's America's only caffeine-producing plant and I'm makes quite a delicious tea. If I might suggest, while that Irish shovel is a real workhorse and beautiful in all regards, a "trenching" shovel is absolutely wonderful around the garden. Because they have a narrower blade, usually around 5" wide at the most, they really sink into the ground! The handle-to-blade angle is much like on your Irish spade, allowing you to get down deep into a trench, but I really only use mine for planting and such. The narrow blade makes it a dream to work with, especially when you're cutting in like you did to get those hollies in the ground.
Hi mark. I'm really glad youve chosen native material. But Its a very ambitious one with holly!! They are notoriously difficult to take in most situations. Tried several times myself with holly and not much in the way of success.I've always used yew cuttings for an evergreen hedge, which take a lot better in my experience. Both plants are slow growing & liking well draining soils. I hope you have a very good return for your efforts, my fingers are well & truly crossed for you. Keep up the great work. Love the channel.🤞🤞
Thank you Dean. I hope with both our fingers crossed and your positive vibes through the airwaves they will take. I've never done holly cuttings before. So maybe I'll have beginner's luck. If not. I'll go to Yew. Although there isn't one in my garden, so i will have to ask a neighbour. Mark
Thanks for the video Mark! I was just looking for some information on how to transplant holly cuttings to grow trees here in the states (upstate New York) Great information.
@@MarksHouseandGardenUK That's about 200 mile east of us. We are just outside of Ithaca NY in the Finger Lakes region. But the Hudson Valley is a beautiful place to see as well, especially in the fall!
Well it should work. I hope. When i was looking into it this was the main method. There was another method where you completely buried the cuttings upside down and waited for green shoots. But i had no faith in that.
Just taken some cuttings of a variegated Holly Green with white margin , one had a red Berry, don,t know the variety, it is the 1oth Nov,, but very, very mild conditions here in the moray firth. Holly plants are very expensive, so I hope I am successful with at least a couple, with one for training into bonsai. Thanks for your ut videos
Hi Tina. Hope you are well. The hedge did ok. I had 66-75% success rate. HOWEVER, I then decided it was in the wrong place. Also, it was growing too slowly. There are a couple of updates if you search 'holly' on the channel. Some showing the root growth. The main outcome was that is works but is very slow. Mark
The planting distance is a very interesting question, because what if only 40 to 50% survive? And then if you double up what if more take than required? So going off my experience I would either do them in tubs and plant out those which take, or if planting in the ground double up for losses and plant them in a double offset row about a foot apart.
Great timing Mark, and great video - thanks :-) I am just about to take some cuttings of holly but not in a position to plant directly into the ground - can I put cuttings in pots for a 4 -12 months??
Thanks so much for the video..just been researching this myself. Intuitively I was hoping your method was viable but all other research I've done dictates using pots and /or digging foot wide trenches and laying a layer of grit amongst other things and all sorts of other things that I'm not sure I have the time or patience for..although I do take that those methods are to provide the best chance of success. Anyway I presume it's still not too late in the year to try this?
Hi there. Thank you. My philosophy is 'what have i got to lose?', so if it doesn't work out this time i might try a more detailed approach next time. We'll soon know. I understand that it is perfectly possible to take these cuttings all winter (although you may struggle breaking the earth in a frost). I hope you have every success with your attempt. I'd be interested to know what you try and how it works out. Best wishes. Mark
Nicely presented thank you! I’ve just subscribed. From Uk living in Tennessee USA and love all flora and fauna. I’ve just got a cutting of holly; think it’s female as it has berries. I will need to get a male cutting too? What is the best soil temperate to plant them in the ground? Right now I have it in soil in the kitchen 👀 Thanks for any tips!
I wish i seen this video before the winter! I done all these exact steps but didn't use the rooting hormone 😬 also instead i potted the cuttings to allow them to root before the area i want to plant is ready. I'm planning on checking progress of roots this week but am i wasting my time without the hormone?! Total garden noob here so don't judge me!!!
Here I won't be able to make holly root out in the open like you are, perhaps due to that we usually have a metre of snow during winter time. And I notice that you aren't using rooting hormones all over the cut area of the cutting, that is not helpful for the cutting. Dip the whole cut end into hormones, and the rooting will be better.
