One of my favorite lessons in the Fundamentals of Gardening course I teach for the New York Botanical Garden is on plant propagation, or as I like to call it, Making More Plants—borrowed from the title of an excellent book by Ken Druse. Over the years, I have watched the wonderment in the eyes of hundreds of students as they realized that their gardens can be plant nurseries, that they can create their own plants from what they already own. Learning how to propagate is a seminal moment in the life of every new gardener as they establish the seasonal tasks that will shape the routines and rituals of their craft.
There are two main types of plant propagation: sexual, from seeds; and asexual, from plant parts (also
