Home Gardener's Propagation

Buying individual plants can be expensive, but propagating your own is a satisfying way to save a lot of money.

Here is a practical guide to increasing the plants in your garden, covering everything from choosing the easiest varieties to multiply to the basics of seed saving and sowing, taking cuttings, dividing, layering, budding and grafting. A handy A-Z list of popular indoor and garden plants details each of their growth habits and why certain methods work better for some than others.

With this easy-to-follow guide it becomes possible to increase most plants, whether a decorative houseplant or a fruiting outdoor shrub. Both novice and more experienced gardeners will turn to this invaluable reference again and again.

Softcover, 80 pages, 2016.