Propagating Guides

You already like the plant. What you need next is another one from what you already have: a stem cutting, a divided clump, an air-layer, or seed. That is a different hour from setting a nursery plant in the ground. That is the job of these notes.

They are written for the tray on the bench and the clump you lift to split. A cutting is not a seed tray, and a divided clump is not a transplant. Seed is slower, and seedlings of a named hybrid will not always match the parent. Air-layer is for wood that will not root in a jar. The small label under each name tells you which method you are opening.

Below, guides sit A–Z by plant name. Open the one that matches what you have in hand. Read the first answers near the top; skip a seed note if you came to take a cutting.