Euphorbia: Which Perennial Varieties to Grow | How to Propagate Euphorbia | How To Cut Back Safely

[@RosyHardyGardening]

Hope you all enjoy the video Full plant list with zone information is in the description :)

[@kimmybooth]

So kind showing us propagation videos Rosy 🙏🏻 as an inquisitive person who loves propagating I can’t thank you enough….Kim 💎

[@brefnejowers9747]

The euphorbia collection at Kew is a sight to behold

[@Neenawlady]

Thank you Rosie, I love euphorbia, I've had 1 in the garden from a cutting I found in a field one day ( Dublin,Ireland) I've searched for the name and I believe it's called donkeys tail, I have it in a rock garden and it's fabulous. Love your channel. ❤

[@JohnandNancyTselepis]

Hi Rosie. Needed this education on Euphorbias ! Who knew so many ? Many thks. 🌷

[@Demoiselle21]

Brilliant! Thank you so much Rosy. Just been tackling mine. This is perfect timing!

[@emkn1479]

I planted several ‘Ascot Rainbow’ a few years back, and I absolutely loved them. Then we had a polar vortex sweep down with several days of high wind and frigid temperatures at or below zero Fahrenheit. They didn’t come back the next year. But I wish I had left the roots in place, because this year I’m seeing tiny little shoots regrowing from where I didn’t fully remove the roots, which did still seem to be alive at the time. In the future I’ll just be cutting back anything that dies…you never know when they’ll spring back to life. Also there is a plant that looks like a tall euphorbia that covers a hillside at a house I often pass by. But I can’t believe one would survive in such an exposed place in zone 6 US. I need to ask them what it is, as I love the form and it stays semi-evergreen all winter.

[@rosyhardy18]

It could easily be one of the shrubby varieties

[@emkn1479]

@@rosyhardy18 I’ll look into that. Is there anything else that you think it might be, or are there specific types that would be reliably hardy in US zone 6?

[@SiSwitzer]

Great video Rosy! Big fan of euphorbias🥰😍 which of the euphorbia can you propagate?

[@pconrad9563]

Thank you Rosy, the sap is the very reason I keep euphoria in my garden. It keeps the rabbits away from my precious plants. The sap burns their noses.

[@rosyhardy18]

I love that Euphoria has come up instead of Euphorbia. I once put a label on a display with Euphoria no one noticed for 2 days 😅

[@joanp105]

This was a wonderful and so informative video. Many thanks for new knowledge about euphorbias. Since I am in a zone 5 b gardening area in upstate NY, US, there are very few that can survive for long here. I have enjoyed those that did for a few years here, and appreciate all the many varieties and species. Can you tell us what it is that puts a plant into the Euphorbia species? Is it that they all have that white toxic sap? Is the sap exactly the same chemically in all of them? If there is a Euphorbia virus in Poinsettias how does it affect them? Does it affect any other plants?

[@rosyhardy18]

The Euphorbia virus affects the poinsettia by causing distorted growing stems and leaves. The morphology of the foral formation is the main identification factor

[@arnorrian1]

Weirdest flower morphology of all flowering plants. I love the annual Euphorbia marginata (Snow-on-the-Mountain) with its white-variegated leaves and flower bracts, and bees love it too.

[@rosyhardy18]

Yes it is

[@honestlynate7922]

I’ve come to find in my area that the flies like it more than the bees do

[@lXlElevatorlXl]

my Euphorbia Wulfenii new leaves are yellow in the middle, here was a temperatur drop from 20 to -1 one is this due cold stress ? or does it need fertilizer

[@MagicalMukhina]

A friend has Euphorbia "ceratocarpa' which flowers forever and is very attractive. But I thought I read somewhere that the roots on this one are very invasive - is this correct? Thanks for the video.

[@TheGardeningKind]

Hi Rosy. Could you recommend a clump forming euphorbia for shade? I’ve tried E. amygloides var Robbiae and its run absolutely everywhere and now need to dig it all out. We have light humid rich but fairly dry alkaline soil. Many thanks!

[@rosyhardy18]

Have you tried Euphorbia epythimoides? Used to be Euphorbia polychroma

[@Bandaid17]

@@rosyhardy18yes. I grow it in zone (now) 6A Northeast PA USA. Did very well here if that helps.

[@JonathanWirth-cu7sw]

Thank u. 😀

[@gloriaruiz2332]

🙏🏻

[@honestlynate7922]

I didn’t know what this was when I went through my garden and pulled a bunch of it out. Following an incredible rash, I made it a point to try to eradicate it from my garden. However, it just keeps coming back and unfortunately, the flies love it.

[@nicolasbertin8552]

In our community garden, there are many euphorbias, but I just can't grow to like them. They grow fast and invade, they reseed very easily, and they just look so alien... It's hard to combine them with anything, which is probably why landscape gardeners don't use them that much. Their main interest is that they're super easy to grow. But you need to combine them with plants that are a bit alien too or it won't work. So stuff like hostas, heucheras, digitalis, hellebores... My main issue though is that they can grow in full sun on tough compacted soils in dry climate, which is what I have. But they don't combine well with plants who grow in those conditions too, stuff like salvias, achilleas, eryngium, echinops, grasses... And the fact that they can burn you with their sap means we have to warn kids, and that not everyone can prune them.

[@MargaretUK]

My neighbour has these, and one will pop up in my garden now and again, but I whisk it out as soon as I see it, I'm not risking that sap 😒

[@OFP2]

Absolute thugs and the milky sap will blind you and the pain in your eyes is excruciating not to mention the skin burns The strimming mad council workers get on the sidewalks 😢

[@rosyhardy18]

Strimming side walk people should be using safety glasses or masks. They certainly do here in the uk.

[@OFP2]

@@rosyhardy18 they certainly should and not those fine mesh visors that make it worse .

[@Karl-p6h]

I literally have no time for euphorbias theyre not even pretty to me ✋🏻

[@RosyHardyGardening]

Fair enough, definitely a few 'marmite' plant out there that polarise opinion

[@spurstrex]

Absolutely hate these plants and funnily so do all my gardening friends. They stick out like a sore thumb. But what ever floats your boat. Happy for you to grow it as you would say but their not coming anywhere to a garden near me. This is the only video of yours l have not liked. Sorry 😔.

[@radical6905]

They look like alien plants… i love them

[@arnorrian1]

Try the annual Euphorbia marginata (Snow-on-the-Mountain), it forms a nice white umbrellas.

[@pansepot1490]

“There’s no accounting for taste.” I have to admit I have always seen euphorbias (the small herbaceous ones) grow along country roads and on the banks of ditches and never liked them, while I tend to love most wildflowers. Apparently British gardeners are crazy about them so last autumn I decided to give Ascot Rainbow a try. It’s in flower now, looks nice but I will have to see how the plant performs throughout the year before converting. 😊

[@wjs5773]

I love them. In spring they look fantastic with purple pulsatilla and orange geums

[@xiaoliu3397]

very unhealthy and weak plants