How Propagating Your Own
Gardening Plants Can Be Good
For You And The Environment

Imagine being able to fill your garden or yard with all the gardening plants and flowers, you could ever want and all for little cost or better still, for absolutely no cost at all.

And then imagine the same for all your patio pots and tubs, hanging baskets, troughs, window boxes and rock gardens. Full of all the most beautiful plants you could ever want and all for little cost, or for absolutely nothing.

Now imagine that all these gardening plants have been grown by your own fair hands, from seed or from cuttings.

Ok, you enjoy your gardening but just think how much more enjoyment you will have when the flowers taking pride of place in your garden have been raised by you from a seed or a cutting.

Raising your own gardeining plants from seeds, cuttings or division is known as propagation.

Propagating gardening plants is an easy way to fill your garden with your very own favorite beautiful plants at little cost, or for absolutely no cost at all.

So, have you ever thought of propagating your own plants, but thought it was too difficult and didn't know where or how to start?

Propagating your own gardeining plants, when you know how, is a lot easier than you might think. Just read on.............

Don’t believe propagating your own gardening plants for free is possible?

Then consider this. From just one mature fuchsia you can take as many as thirty to fifty cuttings, root them in pots and grow them on to maturity.

And you still have the original fuchsia to enjoy.

It’s not just fuchsias, hebes, geraniums and many others can be treated in the same way.

You can collect and save flower seeds at the end of the flowering season, sow them at the right time and you will have hundreds more gardening plants. Do this year after year and you will definitely be propagating your own plants free for life!

So, now you can see how you can soon fill your garden or yard with all the beautiful plants you could ever want, all at little or no cost and all very easily and quickly too.

Propagating is a gardener's most enjoyable activity.

The satisfaction of seeing the seeds you have sown, germinate, like the tray of seedlings here, and then grow on to maturity is pure bliss.

Or the satisfaction of seeing the cuttings you have taken of your favorite gardening plants take root and grow onto maturity, just like it’s parent, is an absolute joy.

It’s a well-known fact that doing something enjoyable that gives you satisfaction, pleasure and a sense of achievement makes you happy. And being happy, so they say, can make you healthier.

It’s also a well-known fact that exercise is good for you and keeps you fit.

Well propagating plants certainly makes you happy because it’s enjoyable, pleasurable and gives you immense satisfaction and a sense of achievement. Propagating gardening plants also gives you gentle exercise.

So, what about the environment?

How is propagating your own gardening plants good for the environment?

Think about the nursery that you buy from, where is your nearest preferred supplier? Five miles away, ten miles away, twenty miles away? Don’t forget it’s a round trip so double it.

Where are the plants grown? Not at the nursery, garden center or store you buy them from, that’s for sure. They are grown at specialised nurseries, which could be in another town, city, state or even in another country.

So how many miles have they traveled just to arrive at the place you buy them from?

Some environmental and carbon footprint, eh?

Now think of all the packaging used to transport them. More valuable natural resources used to produce packaging. And what about the waste left after you have planted them? Where does all that go? Landfills no doubt or incineration, that's more pollution.

By doing your own plant propagating you do away with all the transport mileage, packaging and waste.

Well, is propagating your own gardening plants good for you and the environment? Yes, most definitely!

Now all this propagating of plants is not really difficult and given the right information you will find it quite easy and you can soon be very successful. And most of all it’s extremely enjoyable.

Whether you want to take cuttings, sow seeds, divide, layer or graft we have all the information for you right here.

If you want to propagate gardening plants for spring, summer, autumn ( fall ) or winter, all the information is here.

Just like this greenhouse bench, shown here, full of trays of seedlings and cuttings, some grown in plugs.

From annuals, biennials through to perennials, even for inside the house.

What each part of a plant does and what it's for, what they need to grow successfully, how they grow and the best propagating method. It’s all here to help you suceed in propagating for your own garden.

And even if you are already into propagating plants that’s fine, because there is a lot of information here that will help you.

From bulb scaling to breaking seed dormancy to describing a plant cell. It’s all here!

Whatever you need to know about propagating plants its all here.

Our goal is to give you all the right advice and the very best information and assistance you will ever need to be successful at propagating your own gardening plants.

Starting with the basics of what each part of a plant is for and what it does. To what they need to grow successfully, through to the different propagating methods and then onto details of individual plant propagation.

So if you are a newbie to propagating plants it will be best to start at Plant Life Basics then on to What Plants Need, Tools, Equipment, Soils & Compost and then right through to Grafting all as the left hand nav bar or the links below.

Once you have viewed all those pages it’s time to start propagating plants in earnest.

So move on to Annuals or Biennials, Perennials, Spring Bulbs, or through to Winter Bulbs and see how to propagate all your favorite plants.

And if you are seasoned at propagating plants you must still take a look. There is sure to be propagating information and tips that will help you or you are not aware of.

Any queries along the way, just contact us and we will give you all the help you need.

There’s nothing to stop you now, so lets get going......

Oh.... just before you go, take a look at the pictures below and see what you could do in your own garden.

All you see in these beds have been propagated by us, from seed, cuttings or division.

You could do exactly the same in your own garden and yard, quite easy.

This bed includes Lupins, Delphinium, Phlox, Geraniums, Coreopsis, Pansies, Alstroemeria, Monarda, Fuchsia, Allium, Asiatic Lily, Aquilegia, Eremurus, Crocosmia, Potentilla, Campanula, Penstemon and Hemerocallis.

This bed is edged by a home built pergola and includes, on the pergola Clematis, Jasmine and a fragrant Climbing Rose. In the bed, Geranium, Monarda, Coreopsis, Aconitum, Phlox, Pansies, Erodium and Penstemon.

This bed includes Allium, Aquilegia, Delphinium, Penstemon, Coreopsis, Monarda, Lupins, Pansies, Geraniums and Astilbe.

This bed includes Hostas, Aquilegia, Geraniums, Buddleja, Erigeron, Lychnis, Astilbe and Corydalis, the center piece being a wildlife pond.

This bed includes Delphinium, Hosta, Geraniums, Cornus, Corydalis, Griselinia and Elaeagnus.

This is our "secret" garden, hidden by a thirty foot spruce, Honeysuckle, Clematis and Mahonia. It is entered by walking through home made gates and under a home made pergola.

Growing up the pergola are Clematis, Honeysuckle and a Climbing Rose. Once into the "secret" garden the beds include Mahonia, Corydalis, Geraniums, Griselinia, Elaeagnus, Delphinium, Hellebore, Ferns and Silver Birch.

Visitors are naturally drawn to go through the gates and under the pergola, to see what's on the other side.

This "secret" garden is quiet, peaceful and fragrant and is lush with plants. It is a haven for all types of wildlife, many are attracted to the wildlife pond. It's a place we spend many restful, peaceful and enjoyable hours.

Liven up your house with hanging baskets, troughs, pouches and tubs.

The hanging baskets are planted with Fuchsias, Impatiens and Lobelia.

The troughs are planted with Fuchsias, Impatiens, Lobelia, Verbena, Geranium and Pansies.

The pouches are planted with Impatiens.

The tubs are planted with Fuchsias, Impatiens, Lobelia, Verbena, Geranium and Pansies.

All of these are sold to friends, neighbours, passers by straight from the doorstep and turn a nice profit. All have been propagated by us, all for free!

So not only do we liven up our house and enjoy the plants, we also have a nice little earner as well. Best of both Worlds!

Coming Soon...... "How to Liven up your own house and have a nice little earner at the same time"!

Can't wait to get started?

Ok, off you go then and learn all about plants free for life!.......

And remember, just like us, you could be enjoying your own wildlife garden with trees, shrubs, plants and flowers, all grown by your own fair hands.

You could be relaxing in a quite, peacful, wildlife setting, away from it all with just the sounds of nature around you!

For more information on creating a wildlife garden use Contact Us in the left nav bar and enter wildlife garden in the text box.

That's it, off you go then and learn all about plants free for life!........