The best time to take a cutting from a money tree is in the morning when the plant is the most hydrated and least stressed. Choose a healthy stem that’s a few inches long with several leaves. You want ...

Discover 7 houseplant cuttings to take in February. Experts share their top picks and advise on how to root them for double ...

Rooting cuttings is a time-honored technique. Starting roses from cuttings can be an easy and low-cost solution to get more plants in your garden. Learn how to root roses and consider checking the ...

Rosemary is wonderful to have around for fresh herbs in your cooking, and it's pretty easy to grow. Here's how to easily ...

One of gardening’s best secrets is that it’s fairly easy to produce your own free new plants by persuading cut branch tips to grow roots. A surprising number of trees, shrubs, evergreens, roses, fruit ...

A light-skinned man and a baby inspect a lilac bush in bloom - Olga Zheltonogova/Getty Images When lilacs open their fragrant flowers, it's nature's signal that summer's here. It's hard to have enough ...

It's easy and it's free. It's the best way to stretch your gardening budget. The easiest method is to root cuttings in jars of water. This works for coleus, bloodleaf, cuphea, plectranthus and sweet ...

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 ...

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