These hoarding borders are where I grow my cuttings before planting them out into the garden proper. I also have a raised bench (with capillary matting) where propagated plants are grown in pots.
New plants can be expensive and it's easy to grow your own from cuttings. All you need to do is trick the dahlia tuber into making new shoots in late winter. These can be snipped off and are so ...
Root cuttings need reasonable compost ... Once the shoots have emerged in the spring, lift the young plants carefully from the compost and repot to grow them on.
Once people have identified whether they have plants that need cutting in October, the next step is to correctly execute what can be a fragile process. The best parts of a plant to cut off for ...
“If I want to perpetuate this and create an entirely new plant with just ... rooting hormones for leaf cuttings, but Jerry hasn’t found it useful for these plants. Gently but firmly press ...