Once the shoots have emerged in the spring, lift the young plants carefully from the compost and repot to grow them on.

A slight modification of the technique, called serpentine layering, can be used for climbing plants. Rather than using a single part of the shoot, several portions of a climbing plant's stem are ...

While this stretching can be difficult to detect at first, if it goes unchecked for long, you’ll end up with succulents with ...

“When you make a cutting and put it in water, you know it’s effective because you can see the roots develop.” While soil propagation is better for some types of plants, propagating in water ...

A cutting in water can take three to four weeks to grow roots. "Start off with propagating small plants that you like the look of," Ms Augustine says. "There's a few species that do really well ...

To remedy this, she suggests cutting back some of the vines and propagating cuttings. Once established, " pop [them] back into the soil and fill out the space more ". "It will also encourage the ...