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Growing

The basic starting point for all gardens and gardeners is knowing how to grow and look after your own plants successfully. Gardening is a skill that is learnt over many years, but some of the essential elements can be established quite quickly. The following brief guide will help you to gain an understanding of general plant growing techniques, covering sections like seeds, seedlings, plants, cuttings and related subjects.

Growing plants from seed - Propagation

Most common houseplants are fairly easy to propagate. You can use this method of plant acquisition to gain a range of new plants from friends and relatives with the minimum disturbance to the parent plant.

Usually a part of the plant such as the stem, leaf or root is cut away, and transplanted into a suitable rooting environment. Our New plants from Cuttings guide will help you to understand the basic principles of cuttings.

An example of a good house plant to take a cutting from is a Geranium.

A suitable cutting should be taken from a stem of the healthy parent plant. The cut end being dipped in rooting hormone, and placed into a suitable container with appropriate rooting compost.

If kept in a humid and well-maintained growing environment, new plants will develop from the stem cuttings, in about 2 weeks.