A guide to seven native plants to propagate in December, including expert tips for taking hardwood cuttings of the trees and ...

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas this year. Holly has been used to celebrate Christmas for as long as I can remember. It can be used as a garland on your tree or strung on your front porch along with some ...

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, ...

COLIN CAMPBELL: Growing plants from cuttings is a great method of propagation. In fact many of the shrubs and climbers you see in gardens were grown in this manner. You can take cuttings from the soft ...

Winter gardening typically involves keeping your yard tidy and pruning any dormant plants. However, these colder months are actually an ideal time to propagate certain shrubs and trees. Instead of ...

If you’re trying to stretch your garden budget, winter is the best time to think like a propagator. Before the real cold hits ...

Question: From Tomball, Texas — we have a very shaded back yard and would like some lower growing shrubbery as a screen for the neighbors. Wild yaupon holly is growing well on the fringes and I would ...

Propagating is a cost-effective and therapeutic process for gardeners looking to create new plants from a parent one in their garden. Knowing which plants to propagate in any given month can be ...

How magical: Stick a piece of wood in the ground and next year it becomes a plant. That stick is a hardwood cutting, an easy way to multiply some favorite trees, vines and shrubs. They’re called ...

Taking hardwood cuttings is easy and often the only way to propagate many trees and shrubs. Follow our guide to turning a hardwood stem into a vigorous new plant. Take hardwood cuttings at the end of ...