Transplanting wild shrubs

[hank4elk]

Dug some wildings a few years back. 6-8 ft aspens. Have 1 left growing and it bloomed this week. Another hole had 4 and none made it...until 3 years ago a sprout came up. 12 ft now. Another came up last year.
Moving the wild rose to the bottom lands next week that came out of same wildings clump found in dry stream bed.

Took some aspen branches cut and laying on the ground and placed in coastal stream bed. Aspen grove now I hear, along with a redwood burl grove.

 

[2rocky]

I always like a splash of color....

This one seems to thrive no matter the location...




Best Transported by hand and planted Between March 31 and April 2nd. leaves will be green then.....

 

[Irrelevant]

You can cut Aspen before they bud. We put them in a 5 gallon pail with water and rooting liquid. Then we drilled holes and stuck them in the dirt. They rooted and were doing well. Until I got worried about over use of the well and shut the water off. They were less than half inch around when we cut them. But you have to do it before they leaf out. Can do cottonwoods that way too.

I tried that once without success. But if you get any roots they seem to do fine.

 

[BigHornRam]

I've had a little luck starting shrubs and perennials from cuttings with root growth hormone. Dogwood, mock orange, meadow sage, and the easiest to start, stonecrop. Hope to do more with wild native plants in the future. The local conservation district has a bare root program where you can get trees and scrubs cheap, but have to buy in bulk. 25 limber pine and 25 sumac plants are coming towards the end of the month. They all need to get planted right away, when you get them, or put them in pots till you find a spot for them.

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

Has anyone here successfully transplanted ocotillo? I thought I could do it from a cutting with minimal water, succulent/cactus potting soil, yet that stick looks weak.

 

[Kaitum]

Has anyone here successfully transplanted ocotillo? I thought I could do it from a cutting with minimal water, succulent/cactus potting soil, yet that stick looks weak.

No, but I've wanted to try. I just always assumed their root system would run far deeper than I could possibly dig in the rocky ground I find them in so I never tried. And I'm too cheap to buy one at a nursery. I tried digging up a sotol last year. I swear those things have a taproot that goes into the earth's mantle.