A friend of mine who is a wholesale nurseryman uses this method to propagate all.

Sep 21, It’s not difficult to propagate evergreens from hardwood cuttings. Take the cuttings in early spring while the evergreen is still dormant. Select a sturdy stem from a healthy evergreen, and with pruning shears, take a 7 to 8-inch cutting from the tip. Remove the needles or leaves from the outer 3 to 4 inches of the stem tip.

On your favorite evergreen plants locate several healthy shoots that are firm yet still pliable. Find a leaf node and cut a 4- to inch slip from the plants.

Use clean, sharp pruning shears to make the cut with a swift and decisive motion. The stem cuttings should have a smooth slice; discard any evergreen slips with crushed or tattered ends. Softwood is pliable, whereas semi-hardwood cuttings are pliable on the end but ripe with a woody texture at the base of the cutting. Hardwood cuttings are fully ripe, or woody.

With few exceptions. Aug 18, Hardwood cuttings are used most often for deciduous shrubs but can be used for many evergreens. Examples of plants propagated at the hardwood stage include forsythia, privet, fig, grape, and spirea.

The three types of hardwood cuttings are straight, mallet, and heel (Figure 3). A straight cutting is the most commonly used stem shrubgrinding.barted Reading Time: 8 mins.

Jan 07, If you have a heated propagator that provides gentle base heat, now is a good stop cutting trees essay to take cuttings from several types of evergreens such as holly, euonymus, senecio, hebe and Viburnum tinus. These are all good, reliable garden shrubs that have attractive foliage and flowers at various times of the year, and they are great for adding structure to the shrubgrinding.bar: Garden News.

May 11, Propagating hardwood cuttings of many evergreens can be done at home in a simple frame filled with course sand. To make such a frame, just make a square or rectangular frame using 2" by 6" boards. Nail the four corners together as if to make a large picture frame. This frame should sit on top of the ground in an area that is well shrubgrinding.barted Reading Time: 5 mins. Feb 05, The only real difference is that evergreens, by definition, still have leaves on the go so are a little more vulnerable than the bare sticks that are the material for deciduous hardwood cuttings.

For this reason they need to be kept in a humid environment and kept moist. If only I had a heated propagation bench. Oh wait, I do!Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.