Although cuttings for propagation are most often taken during the growing season, some plants can be grown from hardwood ...

Step 1: Take several stem cuttings from a healthy Christmas cactus plant using clean shears or scissors, or gently break off the cuttings with your fingers. Long stem cuttings are often too top-heavy ...

Dill is an elegant herb commonly grown as an annual plant for its culinary, and historically medicinal, uses. You can grow dill from cuttings, though most people will traditionally grow dill from seed ...

Winter means death for many different plants, but if you take some cuttings from these herbs, you can propagate them indoors during the chilly season.

Winter gardening typically involves keeping your yard tidy and pruning any dormant plants. However, these colder months are actually an ideal time to propagate certain shrubs and trees. Instead of ...

Want to keep tender herbs, annuals, and veggies alive through winter, but don’t have a lot of space indoors for growing plants? Taking cuttings of your favorite plants in fall and rooting them either ...

This is a good time to take cuttings of annuals that you plan to keep over the winter such as geraniums and begonias. Cool nights in September will harden off the plants, which will make them more ...

Editor's note: This is an updated column that was originally published in 2019. There’s an easy way to tell if you’re overwatering a houseplant. If it sends up a periscope and a white flag, cut back ...

It is time to take cutting of your coleus if you want to overwinter the plants. Make about a 4-inch cutting from the tip of a stem, strip the lower couple of leaves and place them in water. Within a ...

Readers: A correction to a previous column. When pruning a Miss Kim lilac, it should be done in the spring AFTER it blooms. Thanks to reader Tony G. Q: I have a very large Thanksgiving cactus plant in ...

Q: I have several geraniums that I overwintered, and I’d like to take clippings and plant them in my window box. Can I do this, or do I have to baby them and start them indoors first? A: It takes a ...