For budget-minded gardeners, propagating hardy perennials from roots is an especially easy way to multiply your crops for free. Certain hardy perennials, such as Oriental poppies, will produce stem ...

Let's face facts: gardening is expensive. Learning how to take root cuttings, then, is a brilliant way to fill your garden with plants for free – especially as it works best on perennial plants, which ...

Discover seven houseplant cuttings to take in April. These plants are all easy to grow from cuttings this month. You'll have new plants in just a few weeks.

Sometimes a houseplant starts to look a little leggy and sad and you want to rejuvenate it, or maybe you want to share a favorite plant with a friend. It’s simple to make more baby plants because many ...

Forsythias are harbingers of spring, filling the garden with their cheery yellow blooms. While forsythia shrubs can be grown from all types of cuttings, they tend to be easiest to root from softwood.

Take a look at new shoots growing on a favorite shrub or vine and you’ll see that the bases of these shoots may be beginning to toughen up, their once soft, green outer layer turning brown and woody.

I'll make a confession if you promise to keep it just between you and me. I suffer from OCGD, or as I like to call it, Obsessive Compulsive Gardener's Disorder. Nowhere are the symptoms more obvious ...

Sometimes you just desire more for your garden, whether it is more blooms, more movement, or more drama. If your simple wish is for more plants, November is an ideal time to propagate plants and ...

Question: A friend gave me several Mexican sunflower cuttings and said to stick them in the ground. Does this work? Answer: You hear stories about sticking stems in the ground and having them root, ...