ONE of the best shrubs in our garden is a Coronilla glauca 'Citrina', a compact evergreen shrub with soft, dense leaves and lots of brilliant yellow flowers.
It blooms in winter and the flowers fill the garden with the sweetest scent, a reminder that spring is just around the corner.
Ours are several years old and starting to sprawl and get rather woody in its centre, so as they are relatively short-lived plants I decided to propagate it by taking some greenwood cuttings.
These come between the new, sappy growth of softwood cuttings taken in spring and early summer, and the mature semi-ripe and hardwood cuttings of late summer and autumn/winter.
Taken now, relatively soft stems should have rooted well by autumn when they can be potted up individually and overwintered undercover.
This story is from the July 15, 2023 edition of Amateur Gardening.
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