These step-by-step instructions will help you propagate jade plants from stem or leaf cuttings successfully. Jade plants ...

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.

A light-skinned man and a baby inspect a lilac bush in bloom - Olga Zheltonogova/Getty Images When lilacs open their fragrant flowers, it's nature's signal that summer's here. It's hard to have enough ...

Sometimes a houseplant starts to look a little leggy and sad and you want to rejuvenate it, or maybe you want to share a favorite plant with a friend. It’s simple to make more baby plants because many ...

Rooting cuttings is a time-honored technique. Starting roses from cuttings can be an easy and low-cost solution to get more plants in your garden. Learn how to root roses and consider checking the ...

I'll make a confession if you promise to keep it just between you and me. I suffer from OCGD, or as I like to call it, Obsessive Compulsive Gardener's Disorder. Nowhere are the symptoms more obvious ...

It's easy and it's free. It's the best way to stretch your gardening budget. The easiest method is to root cuttings in jars of water. This works for coleus, bloodleaf, cuphea, plectranthus and sweet ...

One of gardening’s best secrets is that it’s fairly easy to produce your own free new plants by persuading cut branch tips to grow roots. A surprising number of trees, shrubs, evergreens, roses, fruit ...

Question: A friend gave me several Mexican sunflower cuttings and said to stick them in the ground. Does this work? Answer: You hear stories about sticking stems in the ground and having them root, ...

Plant cutting as gift idea for friends and family? Here's why it works and how to take and propagate cuttings that last!

The best time to take a cutting from a money tree is in the morning when the plant is the most hydrated and least stressed. Choose a healthy stem that’s a few inches long with several leaves. You want ...