Plant propagation is one of my favorite topics on the blog! Propagating plants is a fun and rewarding hobby for gardeners of any experience level. It’s truly amazing to start with one plant and end up with many more.
You can check out my in-depth guide on sexual propagation and asexual propagation in plants to learn more about how to propagate plants.
Follow along as I try to root cuttings in water, start cuttings in soil, plant pinched tops of plants, and so much more.
You can also follow my journey of air layering rosebushes, which I’m updating every step of the way.
Stay tuned to this page for the latest in propagating flowers, fruit, vegetables, herbs, trees, houseplants, and more. All my articles on plant propagation will appear on this page!
Growing basil is easy enough, and it’s no different when learning how to propagate basil. You can propagate basil from cuttings or simply grow it from seeds each year. Fragrant and delicious, basil is a wonderful plant to grow in the garden. When you harvest some basil next time, try a fun little gardening experiment….
Propagation in plants is the process of reproduction, or making more plants. When plants multiply, the offspring may be identical to the parents or hybrids that have a combination of traits from both the male and female plants, depending on the type of propagation. Vegetative propagation involves plants reproducing without fertilization. Plants can reproduce on…
Wouldn’t it be nice to double your blooms every time you grow antirrhinum? Knowing how to propagate snapdragons from cuttings or pieces you’ve pinched off the plant truly works to your advantage. Oh, and propagating snapdragons is a snap! As you may know, we have a major groundhog problem in the garden here. Bunnies, too….
Sometimes plants break. Other times we just love them so much, we want more. Whatever the case, propagating nasturtiums from cuttings is so easy that you can try it just as a matter of principle! We love garden experiments here at Bunny’s Garden! One day I found a piece of broken nasturtium just lying in…
For a fun indoor gardening activity, try propagating Christmas cactus from cuttings! One can never have too many houseplants, after all. My dad gave me two beautiful Christmas cactus plants so I could have one and my best friend could have the other. We were finishing up a vacation down in Cape May County (NJ)…
Some bouquets are just too beautiful to be only part of a passing moment. Take the plunge and try growing rose cuttings from cut flowers so you can enjoy those roses every single year! If you don’t know how to root a rose cutting in water, don’t worry. I didn’t know either – but, with…
Have you ever tried growing fig trees from cuttings? I’m giving it the old college try. I am so excited to see if I can grow a tree from fig cuttings! (Let’s skip over the part where we tell my husband fig trees aren’t a zone 6 hardy plant, shall we? One more indoor plant…
Did you know that you don’t have to just keep buying lilies to get more lilies? I love how the vibrant colors and the tropical accent elevate the landscape appeal. I. Want. All. The. Lilies! So, I’ve begun propagating lilies from scales (also known as scaling) and while it won’t keep me out of the…