What's better than having a beautiful plant? Having one you can easily propagate. Use cuttings from these plants to grow more for your garden or gift friends.

Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas cactus are related plants that are all extremely easy to propagate. When you trim these plants up to encourage more blooms or to neaten leggy stems, save a few of ...

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 ...

There is a particular satisfaction in cutting a stem from a plant you love, tucking it into soil, and watching a new life begin to take hold. Propagation, or the art of creating new plants from ...

It's easy and it's free. It's the best way to stretch your gardening budget. The easiest method is to root cuttings in jars of water. This works for coleus, bloodleaf, cuphea, plectranthus and sweet ...

If the mint on your patio is looking straggly or your friends want to add it to their gardens, it's an easy plant to ...

Healthy cuttings from your current garden can grow into successful new plants with these expert techniques. Growing roses from cuttings of an established rosebush is one way you can expand your rose ...

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 ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...