[GYO Girl]

If there are any new shoots on the prunings. use them as cuttings, they take really easily and no garden can have too much verbena bonariensis in my opinion. its one of may all-time farvourite plants!

[Grubbypaws]

What a fantastic idea. How exactly do you go about it? Do you leave the plant until the shoots are several inches before pruning the parent plant?

[GYO Girl]

First, cut the leggy stems back to a leaf joint. New stems will quickly start to form at the leaf nodes (you will probably already have these forming if your plant is anything like mine).  The new shoots only need to be about 2" long, then neatly pull them off from where they join the parent plant, dip them in rooting powder and bung them in a pot of moist compost. I put the pots in a propagator to keep them humid, but a plastic bag would do.

I took another 3 last week (totalling 7 so far this year from one plant) and they have already started to root.  In fact, the 3 I took last week were cuttings off the earlier cuttings from this year!  Easy peasy!

Good luck! 

[Grubbypaws]

Wow it is amazing.  I didn,t have any rooting powder but they have taken anyway. Oh and I forgot the plastic bag.

THANK YOU

[GYO Girl]

You're welcome! 

For info - since my last post I have taken 4 more cuttings off my cuttings.  Total from one plant bought at a local fayre last summer = 11!

And it even works without rooting power too?  I suspected it might, but I take the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" approach!

[Grubbypaws]

I was so proud at having got these cuttings to take and have looked after them carefully. Nature however has a way of taking the micky sometimes. I have just been tending the area where the mother plant is and there are seedlings everywhere!! I have even had to weed some out 

[jhub]

Mine self seed and I have lots of tiny plants- anyone in kingston upon Thames is welcome to have some.