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By DR. DIANE RELF Extension Environmental Horticulturist
Many of the trees and shrubs popular in the home landscape can be started from cuttings during August. With most of these plants, it is not difficult to produce an abundance of tiny new plants.
Be warned, however, that it may take three to five years before they reach the size you see in the nursery.
Depending on the plant involved, cuttings taken at this time of the year may be softwood or semi-hardwood cuttings. Softwood cuttings are taken from new growth that still is relatively soft and succulent and before the tissue has matured or become woody. You can tell if the plant is in condition for rooting by trying to snap off a three to six inch tip. If it breaks, it is ready.
Make softwood cuttings three to six inches long. Strip the lower leaves before inserting the cuttings into the rooting medium. Space cuttings so the leaves just touch each other. Do not overcrowd them.
Semi-hardwood or green wood cuttings differ from softwood cuttings only in the maturity of the wood. For deciduous plants that root better from semi-hardwood cuttings, the cuttings are taken later in the season when the lower portion of the stem has become ligni
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