Plant Propagation

Plug plants have revolutionised the growing of bedding plants for both commercial and amateur gardeners. Germinating seeds of some of our favourite bedding plants can be slow, expensive and [...]

Tips on Sowing Tomato Seeds Sowing tomato seeds to raise your own tomato plants is not difficult but there are a few key points that need to be taken into consideration. I’d love to share [...]

Softwood Cuttings; Late Summer Propagation  Late summer and early autumn is the perfect time to propagate your favourite plants by rooting cuttings! You may want to do this to have more of garden [...]

It’s spring and I want to share a few of my tips on sowing seeds. I know that some of you will have already sown some and there’s a huge temptation to get growing. But don’t get carried [...]

Propagating plants by root cuttings is one of the easiest ways to multiply plants and the cuttings almost look after themselves! There are a couple of times in the year when root cuttings are [...]

Hardwood Cuttings So you don’t think that you have green fingers [thumbs if you’re American]? Can’t root cuttings eh? Well, I bet you can propagate plants by hardwood cuttings! [...]

Sow Sweet Peas in autumn. For the very best sweet peas autumn sowing is best…but by a whisker those sown in late winter or very early spring are only a smidge behind! Surely there is no [...]