Propagating Plants: How to Create New Plants for Free Review

Want more plants for free or next to nothing? A revised new edition of Propagating Plants: How to Create New Plants for Free, with Alan Toogood Editor-in-Chief has just been released! For clarity, propagate means "to produce a new plant using a parent plant". This attractive hardcover contains everything you could want to see, learn and know about plant propagation.The volume is compiled by experienced horticulturalists and focuses entirely on propagation facts. It's a comprehensive guide on how to propagate more than 1,500 plants with detailed coverage of individual plants. It is designed so that the information is easy to access. The books layout is inviting and engaging with excellent typography and an abundance of photographs and illustrations. A nine page index makes it very easy to reference a specific plant. Contents includes sections on garden trees, shrubs and climbing plants, perennials, annuals and biennials, cacti and other succulents, bulbous plants and vegetables. The complete table of contents is shown below, as are multiple sample pages. There are hundreds of tutorials with techniques that are rated easy, moderate and challenging. The methods are explained well. There is a one page glossary of horticultural terminology. I used it to look up "latex" which I now know means "milky white sap or fluid that bleeds from some plants when stem is cut or wounded; may be irritant." This book is for beginner through serious gardeners. I'm learning a lot. It's an excellent resource on plant propagation. The only one you'll need. DK Publishing released the 320 page hardcover on May 7, 2019. Get your copy below!

Contents

How to use this book

INTRODUCTION

Learning from nature

Propagation in the past

Modern propagation

Sexual increase of plants

Vegetative propagation

Tools and equipment

Soils and growing media

Propagation in different climates

The propagation environment

Plant problems

GARDEN TREES

Taking cuttings

Sowing seeds

Grafting and budding

Layering

Palms

Cycads

Conifers

A-Z of garden trees

SHRUBS AND CLIMBING PLANTS

Taking cuttings

Division

Sowing seeds

Layering

Grafting

Heaths and heathers

Roses

A-Z of shrubs and climbing plants

PERENNIALS

Division

Sowing seeds

Taking cuttings

Ferns

Alpine plants

Water garden plants

Bromeliads

Ornament grasses

Orchids

A-Z of perennials

ANNUALS AND BIENNIALS

Sowing seeds

A-Z of annuals and biennials

CACTI AND OTHER SUCCULENTS

Sowing seeds

Division

Taking cuttings

Grafting

A-Z of cacti and other succulents

BULBOUS PLANTS

Division

Sowing seeds

Scaling and chipping

A-Z of bulbous plants

VEGETABLES

Sowing seeds

Culinary herbs

A-Z of vegetables

Glossary

Index

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION, Tools and equipment, pages 28 & 29.

SHRUBS AND CLIMBING PLANTS, Roses from seeds, pages 116 & 117.

PERENNIALS pages 146 & 147.

CACTI AND OTHER SUCCULENTS, Taking cuttings, pages 236 & 237.

A-Z of vegetables, pages 298 & 299.

Propagating Plants: How to Create New Plants for Free ISBN-13: 978-1465480125 is available worldwide at DK Canada, DK US, and DK UK. DK was founded in London in 1974 and is now the world leading illustrated reference publisher and a member of the Penguin Random House division of Bertelsmann.