Bunny shows some quick tricks for plant propagation. Propagating your own plants allows you to bulk up your plants and create great, drifts of plants for free. Plus great plants are a wonderful gift.

Bunny shows you her X Stream Aero Propagator which speeds up the rooting of cuttings massively. Some root in a few days, roses have rooted in around 3 weeks and Daphnes and other evergreens in around 4-5 weeks.

Cutting Globes are a fabulous way to air layer trees, shrubs and house plants in particular while sowing seed is much more successful if you give each plant the ideal temperature and conditions.

Jelitto Seeds have top advice for a huge range of perennials in the back of their wholesale seed catalogue.

Finally root propagation is far quicker if you do this when the plant is actively growing. If you do this the normally way, taking them in winter, it takes far longer. A great tip Bunny got from Joe Sharman of Monksilver nursery. (www.monksilvernursery.co.uk) Joe has worked inpropagation for many years and some believe he could get a chair leg to root!

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