Propagating Plants: How to Create New Plants for Free, Revised Edition

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Are you interested in starting your own garden from scratch? Written for thrifty gardeners, this book offers all the information on propagating any plant, from fruit trees and ornamental shrubs to exotic orchids and succulents.

A horticulturist's delight, the revised edition features more than 1,800 detailed illustrations and photos showing modes of reproduction characteristic of each plant as well as practical, step-by-step gardening techniques.

How long do your seedlings need to germinate? What makes a healthy stem cutting? How do you know what type of rootstock to use when grafting plants? From palms and roses to culinary herbs and conifers, each chapter contains popular and botanically interesting plant groups, where the plants' special needs are discussed, with expert tips on how to achieve success.

A handy dictionary also provides a quick reference to the relative ease or difficulty of each propagation method.

Hardcover, 320 pages, 2019.