Save This Plant!
A friend’s ivy carried memories of a lost home. Follow the gardener’s effort to preserve it through cuttings and new window boxes, with practical notes on rooting vining...
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Plant Growth 101
Rooting tips, plant care and practical growing advice.
Gardens, Cats, and Hormex
Planting beds and curious cats shape this archived garden story, covering preparation, transplanting, mulch and barriers around young plants.
Read article →Hormones and Growth
This archived introduction considers plant hormones as a topic in growth and propagation, including auxins and other plant-growth regulators.
Read article →Your Questions About Hormex
Readers ask about aeroponic cloners and rooter pots in this archived Q&A about different approaches to plant propagation.
Read article →Transplant Insurance
A short archived observation reflects on moving plants into new soil and the gardener’s experiences with transplant watering.
Read article →Clever Rooter Pots
Rooter pots hold a rooting mix around a stem while it stays attached to the parent plant. This short note introduces the setup, moisture checks and root inspection....
Read article →Rooting Tropical Hibiscus
A favorite double apricot hibiscus inspires this archived account of choosing mature stems and arranging a propagation project.
Read article →East Stem Cuttings
This brief archived note introduces African violet leaf cuttings and the appearance of young plantlets during propagation.
Read article →Gesneriad Leaf Cuttings
A listener’s African violet brings leaf cuttings, offsets and young plantlets into this archived gardening discussion.
Read article →Camellia Propagation
A gardener recalls watching a skilled camellia grafter and reflects on seeds, grafting and cutting propagation.
Read article →Orchids from Aerial Cuttings
This short archived orchid note discusses aerial shoots and the later transition of young plants into a potting medium.
Read article →Propagating Orchids II
An orchid encounter in Hawaii opens this archived growing note about keiki, aerial shoots and the gardener’s observations of young plants.
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