Propagating Plants: How to Create New Plants for Free

by Alan R. Toogood

Are you interested in growing your own plants from scratch? This reference book will teach you how to propagate virtually every type of plant.

If you're a thrifty gardener who wants more plants for free, then this book is perfect for you! From fruit trees and ornamental shrubs to exotic orchids and succulents, get all the info you'll need to propagate plants at your fingertips.


Discover the experts' secrets to perfecting plant propagation with this easy-to-follow gardening manual. A horticulturist's delight, this new edition features more than 1,800 detailed illustrations and photos that show both practical step-by-step gardening techniques and the plants themselves.

How long do your seedlings need to germinate? What makes a healthy stem cutting? How do you know what type of rootstock to use when grafting plants? Find out the answer to these questions and more in the most comprehensive guide to propagating plants ever published.

From palms and roses to culinary herbs and conifers, each chapter contains popular and botanically interesting plant groups. Explore the modes of propagation that are unique to the featured plants. Learn about their characteristic ways of reproduction and how these are exploited in various techniques. The techniques are fully illustrated with step-by-step photographs and explanatory artworks. The plants' special needs are discussed, with expert tips on how to achieve success.
This gardening book is crammed with hundreds of step-by-step tutorials and clear advice, ranging from straightforward and simple to more in-depth. The rating system in the plant-by-plant A-Z dictionaries provides you with a quick reference to the relative ease or difficulty of each method of propagation.

Fill Your Garden with Beautiful Plants for Next-To-Nothing

Plant propagation is a fun, rewarding and inexpensive way to add shrubs to your garden or multiply your collection of houseplants. This book helps you successfully reach your goals while steering you clear of common mistakes. It's an indispensable reference book for every propagator's bookshelf.

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Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Reference, Plants, Horticulture, Biology

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Alexis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really through guide to propagation. It lists just about everything you can imagine or buy in a store. I think it's only missing carnivorous plants but has detailed guides for every thing else. I really liked the history of plant propagation included, as I have always wondered how people in the past gardened or invented these techniques. Definitely a good book to keep on the shelf if you want to branch out into propagation.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another good book about propagation, pretty much more around how to propagate everything (trees, scrubs, flowers, cactus etc.) The book also went into debt about grafting. Would of liked a few chapters specifically about herbs but the flower part of the book was interesting.

[Lunnaku · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic book with a lot of great details, I learned a quite a bit. My only complaint is that I wish it had details on when/how plants can be triggered for flowering.

[Rev · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super in depth book that covers a wide variety of plants and how you can propagate them by a variety of methods. The book is broken up into sections based on what kind of plant you want to propagate including trees, shrubs, and a variety of smaller plants such as flowers and succulents.

Will definitely be buying a copy of my own for future reference.

[Khalifa Al Qamzi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Guide to propagating plants

Guide is perfect I gave 4 stars just because it is not optimized properly to run on the kindle. Had to read the book using my smart phone . Other than that the the book is perfect.

[Judy Jablonski · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was really excited about this book but found it a little too technical for a casual gardener looking to increase her house plants.

[Ashleah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of great information! I borrowed this from the library, but I'm probably going to buy a used copy to keep as a reference book.

[Landon Coleman · Rating 4 out of 5]

More science than a guy like me can follow in the early chapters. Great guides for how to propagate different varieties of plants. Good photos.

[Cherie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of clear pics and info on all kinds of plant propagating! So much info in here - wonderful reference.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enough information in here to keep me refering back for a long time to come.

[Haley White · Rating 5 out of 5]

I go back to this book often for reference. Great tips

[Otto · Rating 3 out of 5]

Propagating Plants by Alan Toogood is a colorful and comprehensive encyclopedia on making more plants based on their preferences, whether through seeds, cuttings, division, or other methods. This book is detailed; it leaves no pots unwatered and weeds unpulled in its explanations of what each plant prefers, helping readers learn that it’s not always just snipping a stem off a plant and sticking it in mud.

[RK · Rating 5 out of 5]

OUTSTANDING!