Sow, Cut and Grow – Basic Propagation

Hannah Fox, of micro-nursery Bright Green Fox, talks through the essentials of plant propagation that can be applied to a very wide range of garden plants enabling viewers to confidently approach multiplying their plants cheaply and efficiently. And all in an entrancingly beautiful garden!

March
Hannah covers the taking of root cuttings of perennials, hardwood cuttings of willow, and perennial basal cuttings. She moves on to the hand-pollination of hellebores, so that later in the year, you can gather seed of plants which will produce high quality flowers.

April
Hannah starts off by looking through a garden border and discusses which plants she might propagate, moving on to the division of perennials, grasses and a rhizomatous fern. She moves on to the growing on of seedlings and rooted cuttings.

October
Autumn is the time to collect seeds of garden plants. the most cost-effective way of propagating perennials. Hannah talks us through various types of seed, and how they need to be cleaned and processed prior to sowing; and then the business of seed sowing itself. She goes on to look at the propagation of a fern which produces bulbils on its fronds, the taking cuttings of shrubby salvias and the subsequent potting on of rooted cuttings