03-14-2006, 11:12 AM
Aloha, Cindy. Cathy is right on target with her advice, especially about rooting your own starts to save money. People with more mature landscapes often have to thin saplings of flowering trees or prune them which produces cuttings for rooting. A lot of things like plumeria can just be stuck in the ground or a pot, but some of the ones with woody stems do better if you use a product called Rootone. You can buy it at WalMart, and it contains a rooting hormone and a fungicide which greatly enhance your chances of success. We have produced beautiful and valuable landscape plants by rooting cuttings from landscape maintenance companies' discarded prunings and thinnings. We have even found self-rooted cuttings in heaps of green waste dumped illegally along the Red Road in Waa Waa. Our neighbors have commented on how nice our yard looks, and the only thing we really spent money on was the palms across the front, and I can tell you where to buy those cheap!!
Aloha to all,
Jerry
Aloha to all,
Jerry