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 ...

CORVALLIS – Snipping some cuttings from the garden this time of year will produce your own private nursery of plants by spring. Whether you plant the results of your “snip and stick” project or give ...

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 ...

A popular myth is that winter is a slow time for a gardener. The list of jobs may be smaller than during other seasons, but ...

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 ...

An easy way to get more plants is to propagate them from cuttings. This involves pruning a length of stem from a plant and ...

Pothos cuttings can be propagated in water or soil. It takes two to four weeks for new roots to grow from stem cuttings.

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 ...

Andrew Bunting, vice president of horticulture at the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society Damon Abdi, assistant professor of ...

Our gardens may be preparing for their winter slumbers, but that doesn’t mean we have to rest: It’s time to make free shrubs! The easiest way to propagate woody plants like dogwood, forsythia, ...

Growing your garden from seeds or cuttings that you’ve started yourself not only gives you a sense of satisfaction, it also gives you amazing variety. Horticulturist Kathy Echols says shes been ...

Softwood propagation is easy if you follow a few basic steps. Question: My neighbor has an amazing garden. Whenever I’ve admired a plant, she offers me a cutting, but I don’t know what to do with it.