Q: I’m hoping you can help answer how I can start a citrus tree from a cutting. Can citrus trees be started just from cuttings? I mean just a cutting without the rootstock since I don’t have the ...

Let's face facts: gardening is expensive. Learning how to take root cuttings, then, is a brilliant way to fill your garden ...

Take a look at new shoots growing on a favorite shrub or vine and you’ll see that the bases of these shoots may be beginning to toughen up, their once soft, green outer layer turning brown and woody.

For budget-minded gardeners, propagating hardy perennials from roots is an especially easy way to multiply your crops for free. Certain hardy perennials, such as Oriental poppies, will produce stem ...

STRICTLY speaking you should do root cuttings when you divide your perennial plants in autumn or at the start of winter, but if you didn’t have time you can have a go now – while we still have two ...

Question: I started cuttings of Confederate jasmine and small leaf fig a few weeks ago, and I can see growths forming. Does this mean the cuttings have rooted? How can I tell if the roots have formed?