How to get free plants from sprouting perennials
As plants start to grow again we can begin to take new growth as cuttings to make more no-cost plants. It is a more reliable way of plant propagation than collecting seeds, for the plants that grow from the cuttings will be identical to their parent, whereas some plant seed will cross and create something new and different. Though having said that, there is something fun in, for example, sowing aquilegia seeds you have harvested and being amazed at the colours that emerge.
Shoots of delphiniums, asters, phlox and lupins emerge from the
