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Jo Arnell

EXPLAINED: Fill your garden with plants for free by following our essential tips | Rare Historical Photos

English country garden with colourful blooming flower beds with wooden fence and pergola to support plant propagation tips.

With some basic equipment, the magic of nature and a little patience, you can fill your garden – for free. Propagation is the growing of plants from a parent plant, either by taking cuttings, growing from seed, dividing bulbs or layering techniques.

Anything grown from a cutting will be identical to its parent, so you can be sure that the characteristics you have admired in the existing plant will reappear in the new because it is a clone of the original alluring plant. 

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