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 ...

Take a 4 to 6 inch semi-hardwood cutting from a healthy rosemary plant in late spring, strip the lower leaves, pop it into coconut coir or water, and you’ll have a rooted plant ready to pot up in four ...

Discover exactly how to propagate a Christmas cactus to get free plants to give as holiday gifts, and color all winter long.

Clear plastic shoeboxes make for suitable rooting cases. Learn how to grow a rose from a cutting and a slip using the hardwood or softwood propagation technique. Roses are surprisingly easy to root. I ...

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 ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Growing a long, trailing plant with stunning foliage is simple if you know how to harvest and root the vines of a Tradescantia, also known as spiderwort or inch plant. This perennial, native to the ...

Spider plants are famous for their air-purifying qualities and easy-care nature, making them a favorite among plant lovers ...

Houseplants have gotten something of a bad rap lately, with climate advocates citing the energy-intensive greenhouses they’re grown in, the harmful emissions produced from shipping them long distances ...