Some people have success with soil layering a somewhat difficult process.
Walking stick tree propagation.
This wonderful plant with it s array of twisted and contorted branches will happily grow in zones 4 through 8 and is one of the few plants that really has no serious disease or insect pest problems.
A faster method of propagation is to graft a branch from your walking stick onto the root stock of a corylus colurna turkish hazel tree during the winter months.
Only about 50 percent of cuttings survive.
It is a type of hazel nut tree with cork screw branches.
This is a large upright suckering deciduous shrub that typically grows to 10 15 tall but infrequently grows as a small flat topped tree to as much as 35 tall.
I have a copy of all you shared with me before on grafting and am anxious to try it.
As a grafted plant harry lauder s walking stick is difficult to propagate.
It is very interesting shrub.
I am trying to find out what is commonly used as rootstock for the harry lauder walking stick.
It s scientific name is corylus avellana contorta.
Botanically known as corylus avellana contorta harry lauder s walking stick is one of the most interesting interesting plants you can put in your landscape and probably one of the least understood.
Harry lauder s walking stick pruning propagating and general care.
Aralia spinosa commonly called devil s walking stick or hercules club gets its common name from the stout sharp spines found on its leaf stalks stems and branches.