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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.

Propagation information

Cross-pollination, when genes mix to breed new plants

 What is cross-pollination

Layering strawberry plants, simple steps for more berries!

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

Katsura propagation top techniques & how-to

 Katsura male flowers on branch

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

 Four katsura seeds (Cercidiphyllum japonicum)

Plant patent – how can anyone claim to own nature?

 Stylized tree in front of piles of coins.

Propagate a mimosa tree from bark

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

Propagate lavender with these 100% propagation guidelines

 Young propagated lavender shoots

Perennial vegetables: plant once, harvest for years!

 Perennial vegetables

Plumbago cuttings, an easy way to propagate it

 Diagramme showing how to cut plumbago cuttings

Propagating plumbago – multiply these blue wonders!

 Plumbago multiply

Layering lavender, a great way to propagate lavender

 Layering lavender

Cuttings and propagation, guiding principles

 Plant cuttings

Preparing rose tree cuttings, when and how to do it

 Rose cutting

Propagating Dracaena marginata plants: 3 techniques

 Dracaena marginata propagation

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

 Propagating sunpatiens seeds and cuttings

How to prepare hydrangea cuttings

Grafting, purpose and best techniques

 Grafting plant

ZZ plant propagation, how to multiply Zamioculcas

 Propagating zamioculcas

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

 Grow plants from scraps

Layering or marcotting, a propagation technique

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

Geranium cuttings, easy to prepare

 Tray full of geranium cuttings

Propagating perennials

 Division of perennials

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

 A young katsura tree branch, perfect for cuttings.

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

 Pineapple cutting with roots

Preparing Rose tree cuttings

Prepare cuttings from your favorite plants

 Cuttings from favorite plants

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

 Top of a beheaded dracaena marginata dragon plant

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

 Air-layering lavender, a how-to with pictures