HOW TO PROPAGATE 375 PLANTS

A practical guide to propagating your own flowers, foliage plants, trees, shrubs, climbers, dry-loving plants, bog and water plants, vegetables and herbs

• Plants for free –how to grow new flowers, trees and shrubs with this clear and practical gardening guide.

• Covers all the popular propagation techniques including sowing seed; taking cuttings; dividing; growing suckers and offsets; layering; how to create extra bulbs, tubers and corms, and grafting two plants together.

• An A-Z directory lists 375 key plants for propagating, describing each plant’s size, colour and shape, and how and when to propagate them to get the best results.

• Beautifully illustrated with over 1100 clear and informative photographs and artworks.

Plants propagate themselves naturally in the wild, using all kinds of ingenious techniques. This practical book explains the most effective techniques for propagating hundreds of different types of plants. The book begins with growing plants from seed, covering everything from lettuces and chillies to sunflowers and sweet peas. Next, there are instructions on taking cuttings from established plants to give you exact copies of the parent plant at minimal cost. Dividing plants, layering and grafting methods follow and all are explained with step-by-step instructions and photographs. The directory of 375 plants includes growing tips for each species.