Growing plants from cuttings is a great way to expand—or share—the beauty of any garden. Perhaps you’d like to preserve a flower with family history, increase your collection of favorite blooms or ...

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 ...

Want more plants in your garden without getting more from the store? It’s time to learn plant propagation. It’s how gardeners get more plants by collecting seeds, snipping off cuttings, or digging and ...

Our gardens may be preparing for their winter slumbers, but that doesn’t mean we have to rest: It’s time to make free shrubs! The easiest way to propagate woody plants like dogwood, forsythia, ...

Taking cuttings of your favorite plants while they're still actively growing is a great and inexpensive way to perpetuate tender annuals, old friends and new acquisitions as insurance for next year, ...

Want to keep tender herbs, annuals, and veggies alive through winter, but don’t have a lot of space indoors for growing plants? Taking cuttings of your favorite plants in fall and rooting them either ...

Over the years, I’ve received plant cuttings from friends and family, which have helped me to keep favorite plants and treasured memories alive. So, I’ve recently begun my own tradition of gifting ...

Learn how to easily multiply your favorite garden plants with cuttings, using sterile tools, the right potting mix, and warm, humid conditions to grow strong new roots.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image provided by Jessica Damiano demonstrates the use of bypass pruners to take a hardwood cutting from a redtwig dogwood ...