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 ...

Propagating houseplants in water is a straightforward, low-waste, and rewarding method to expand your indoor garden. This technique, known as vegetative propagation, involves rooting plant cuttings in ...

Discover 7 houseplant cuttings to take in January and get a head start on rooting before spring. You can use tools like a heat mat to successfully root them.

Rooting cuttings is a time-honored technique. Starting roses from cuttings can be an easy and low-cost solution to get more plants in your garden. Learn how to root roses and consider checking the ...

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 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 ...

Lilacs are popular backyard shrubs renowned for their sweet blooms and can be propagated in various ways. It's possible to grow them from cuttings, from suckers, or from seed. One of the reasons ...

The current dormant season is the right time for dividing perennials, reported in last week’s column. It is also the right time to propagate plants from hardwood cuttings from deciduous shrubs and ...

Those hard-to-find salmon-colored geraniums or deep-purple coleus in your yard doesn't have to wither away with fall's first frost. Take cuttings and root them to grow as houseplants you enjoy indoors ...