Multiply Your Plants With Propagation

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Multiply Your Plants With Propagation

Did you know that you can grow an entire garden starting with just one plant? It’s true. By buying and caring for just one small plant, over time and with the proper care, you can end up with many, many more… all at no additional cost. It’s done with techniques known as propogation, and dividing.

Many common indoor and outdoor plants can be multiplied easily using basic dividing and propogation techniques. And once you know how it’s done, you’ll wonder why you haven’t been doing this before now.

Dividing a plant simply means to break it up into smaller pieces. This is often done when a plant becomes too large for a container it’s growing in, or too large for the garden space it’s planted in. You can divide a plant almost anytime though, as long as it is healthy and not too small.
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Creating a Tea Garden

Creating a Tea Garden

Creating a tea garden is one of the best types of gardens for a beginner to start with - especially if they love tea!

Tea gardens can be created in almost any sized container, or they can be planted outside in the ground too. You can simply plant various types of herbal teas into a designated area of your yard, or create a more formal garden bed for your tea garden instead.

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The Beauty of Topiary Gardening

The Beauty of Topiary Gardening

The term topiary?which is the practice and art of pruning and shaping trees and shrubs to create living sculptures?comes from the Greek word meaning ?places?. Gardeners who specialize in topiary choose evergreen plants with small needles and leaves, dense foliage and a relatively compact growth habit.

Wire frames or cages are sometimes used to provide a template for the design and add support to the finished product. Topiary sizes range from small ball-shaped ivy plants grown in six-inch pots to large privet hedges carefully trimmed into animal or human forms. Not for the beginning gardener with rare exceptions, practice of topiary demands a steady hand, perseverance and the willingness and ability to keep the topiary plant trimmed to the desired shape.

The earliest European topiaries date from the time of ancient Rome. After some years spent in obscurity, they regained popularity in the 16th century, when they began showing up in multiple forms in the formal terraced gardens and parterres of wealthy European families, and as single objects in smaller cottage gardens of the less affluent.
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