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How to grow new jade plants from cuttings

These step-by-step instructions will help you propagate jade plants from stem or leaf cuttings successfully. Jade plants ...
Whether you want to brighten up your backyard, or want a porch plant to showcase your home, hydrangeas are a popular choice. With their beautiful, clustered blooms, and pastel colors of pink, white ...
Maybe you, like me, look out at your garden sometimes and see a plant and think, “I wish I had gotten more of those!” If you are like me, you think this right after the plant nurseries move on to ...
A clean, healthy stem cutting can form the basis of a brand new rosebush. Take the following steps to obtain a rose stem cutting. Look for a 4- to 6-inch piece of stem near the top of the plant (never ...
Q: I have a snowball viburnum that I would like to propagate. What kind of cuttings will work best? And when is the best time to start making the cuttings? A: Propagating new plants from your own ...
The only thing better than one snake plant is multiple snake plants. Turn your favorite, easy-to-grow houseplant into ...
See how simple it can be to take an herb cutting from a friend or from your garden. Learn how to grow herbs from cuttings. See how simple it can be to take a cutting from a friend or from your garden ...
Use clean pruners to make a cut at a 45-degree angle near the end of the branch. Trim the tip of the branch straight across ...
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 ...
I'll make a confession if you promise to keep it just between you and me. I suffer from OCGD, or as I like to call it, Obsessive Compulsive Gardener's Disorder. Nowhere are the symptoms more obvious ...
Plant cutting as gift idea for friends and family? Here's why it works and how to take and propagate cuttings that last!
Don't toss that supermarket lemon. Learn how to grow lemon trees (Citrus x limon) from seeds to produce one of the most fragrant flowering trees around.