Layering is an ingenious way of propagating shrubs and other plants – in essence it’s like taking cuttings while allowing them to stay attached to their parent plant. It’s all about replicating what happens in nature when a shoot or branch comes into contact with the soil and starts rooting, and it’s a great way of reproducing difficult-topropagate shrubs.
The process works well in autumn, so now’s the moment to select plants you can propagate