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How to Propagate Oxalis
How to Propagate Oxalis. Oxalis or Wood Sorrel is an easy to grow plant that can be grown in shady damp soil, in sunny rock gardens or as a houseplant in diffused sunlight. It has shamrock shaped green or purple leaves and produces blooms of pink, lavender or yellow or white. The blooms open in daylight and close in the evening. There are many...
Oxalis or Wood Sorrel is an easy to grow plant that can be grown in shady damp soil, in sunny rock gardens or as a houseplant in diffused sunlight. It has shamrock shaped green or purple leaves and produces blooms of pink, lavender or yellow or white. The blooms open in daylight and close in the evening. There are many types of Oxalis but all varieties spread from runners and offsets that develop around the edge of the plant. For best results, Oxalis should be propagated or divided during the winter dormant season.
Things You'll Need
Oxalis
Shovel
Wire
Garden tape
Mark off the clump of oxalis you plan on dividing while the plant is active because oxalis dies to the ground in winter. Once the plant becomes dormant, it may be difficult to see where the plant was located in the garden. Simply push a stick or piece of wire into the ground and add a piece of garden tape as a marker.
Push the blade of the shovel around the edge of where the clump of oxalis was growing in the summer. Then, push the blade under the clump and using the shovel as a leverage, loosen the clump of oxalis from the ground.
Take the clump of oxalis and begin separating the viable bulbs and offsets. A clump ten inches across may contain 50 or more offsets. If you do not want to pull all the offsets or bulbs apart from the main plant, you can gently pull the plant into several large clumps for replanting. Set each new clump or offset aside and prepare the new planting location.
Dig a new hole in the ground for the offsets or new clumps. The clumps and offsets should be planted at the same depth they were previously planted. Water once to settle in and they should not need water again until the spring when they should sprout in their new location. Oxalis bulbs are very drought tolerant when dormant.
