Want to keep tender herbs, annuals, and veggies alive through winter, but don’t have a lot of space indoors for growing plants? Taking cuttings of your favorite plants in fall and rooting them either ...
You've been smart with your fuchsia plant. You didn't let this flowering perennial beauty die, because you brought it indoors for the freezin' season. Part of prepping this pollinator-magnet for ...
It is relatively easy to take cuttings and it is an extremely satisfying method of propagating many plants. However, there are several common mistakes that can cause your cuttings to fail to root ...
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.
Plant propagation is a way of creating new plants from existing ones. When a genetically identical, exact duplicate of a plant is desired, cuttings are frequently used. A cutting is a piece of a plant ...
Roger Little, of Almaden, was rooting a fuchsia cutting on a shelf outside his kitchen window when he got a bit of a surprise — a beautiful bloom had developed on the cutting. It seems nature was not ...