INCREASING your own plants is one of the most enjoyable aspects of gardening, as well as being the cheapest way of obtaining new stock. Basically, there are two ways of propagating plants. There is the vegetative method, which embraces cuttings, layering, budding, grafting and division or splitting of plants. The other way is to raise plants from seed.
Over the next 12 weeks, I will be discussing all these methods of propagation and giving many examples of garden, house and greenhouse plants that can easily be raised by amateur gardeners. By collecting these articles, you will have a comprehensive guide to the various techniques used in the propagation of a wide range of subjects.
Let us start with the raising of plants from cuttings. These are simply portions of a stem, leaf or root which, when given the correct conditions, form roots of their own and grow into new plants exactly
