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Propagation

Plants often spread on their own, but sometimes we lack patience and want to speed things up. Or we really want THAT plant. Learn to propagate here.

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Salvia officinalis

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Lysimachia punctata

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Cistus shrub in full bloom with white papery flowers and yellow stamens in a dry rocky garden

Cistus: the complete growing and care guide for sun-drenched gardens

Gardening
Grafting plant

Grafting, purpose and best techniques

Special reports
Air-layering lavender, a how-to with pictures

Air-layering lavender: root your lavender stems in pouches of soil on the plant

Garden Flowers
Dracaena marginata propagation

Propagating Dracaena marginata plants: 3 techniques

Gardening
Young propagated lavender shoots

Propagate lavender with these 100% propagation guidelines

Garden Flowers
Pineapple cutting with roots

Grow your own pineapples from scraps of the ones you find sweetest

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Propagating sunpatiens seeds and cuttings

Sunpatiens seeds, cuttings and propagation – what’s allowed and what’s not

Garden Flowers
Perennial vegetables

Perennial vegetables: plant once, harvest for years!

The Vegetable Patch
Top of a beheaded dracaena marginata dragon plant

Beheading a Dracaena marginata – fear not, it will survive!

Indoor plants
Plumbago multiply

Propagating plumbago – multiply these blue wonders!

Climbing plants
Diagramme showing how to cut plumbago cuttings

Plumbago cuttings, an easy way to propagate it

Climbing plants
Grow plants from scraps

30+ plants to grow from kitchen scraps – no need to go buy seeds!

Indoor plants
A young katsura tree branch, perfect for cuttings.

Preparing katsura cuttings – a quick way to propagate your Caramel tree!

Trees and shrubs
Katsura male flowers on branch

Katsura propagation top techniques & how-to

Trees and shrubs
Four katsura seeds (Cercidiphyllum japonicum)

Katsura tree germination – success rates, problems, and how to succeed

Trees and shrubs
Cuttings from favorite plants

Prepare cuttings from your favorite plants

Special reports
Layering lavender

Layering lavender, a great way to propagate lavender

Garden Flowers
Stylized tree in front of piles of coins.

Plant patent – how can anyone claim to own nature?

Special reports
What is cross-pollination

Cross-pollination, when genes mix to breed new plants

Special reports
Runners of strawberry plants guided along a cement driveway to spread and multiply.

Layering strawberry plants, simple steps for more berries!

The fruit Orchard
Two slabs of bark from a damaged tree recovered with sprouting mimosa tree shoots.

Propagate a mimosa tree from bark

Special reports
Propagating zamioculcas

ZZ plant propagation, how to multiply Zamioculcas

Indoor plants
hydrangea cuttings

How to prepare hydrangea cuttings

Special reports

Preparing Rose tree cuttings

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Tray full of geranium cuttings

Geranium cuttings, easy to prepare

Garden Flowers
Division of perennials

Propagating perennials

Garden Flowers
Plant cuttings

Cuttings and propagation, guiding principles

Special reports
Rose cutting

Preparing rose tree cuttings, when and how to do it

Roses
Layering means putting a portion of a stem in the ground for it to root. In this case, lavender

Layering or marcotting, a propagation technique

Special reports