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We talk about our house plant graveyards, how to take basal cuttings and learn a lot from each other.

I’m taking Dactylicapnos ventii cuttings making sure I have three nodes on the cuttings, the bottom for three nodes but if it’s too long I didn’t bother but that then prevented me from being able to bury the cutting I used my little snips to take the cuttings as they are delicate and sharp to easily take out bottom half of the cuttings shoots and climbing tendrils.

I’ve just taken leaf cuttings of Begonias as I saw someone on instagram doing them already and thought Last year I did them in July, I cut across the leaf veins and left the leaf whole to place on compost I cut across the leaf veins put the whole leaf in the bag, mist, drain excess water and close up.

A demonstration on how to maximise propagation material from one stock plant with root cuttings and grass

Marigolds, Celosias, Zinnias, Basil, Coriander, Fennel, Chillies and Tomatoes are started from seed at I typically also re-start my Coleus from cuttings at this time, because they've grown too wild over the which translates to "Ever-blooming) from nursery-bought plug plants as well, as I find they're good for cutting

You will be making your cuts above and below this pair of nodes. Above the upper node, make a clean, single shallow cut girdling the branch. Now join these two girdling cuts with a straight, shallow cut running along the length of the branch - being careful to not make this cut through either of the nodes. Finally, label it with the date, and the expected date of cutting.

This is where you want to make your cut. Be patient, this is often the hardest step! base of the mother plant (still rooted in its original container) should produce offsets from near the cut

Today Joe the gardener has cut back the Akebia quinata chocolate vine as it was taking over other stock

paradigm, away from the tyranny of the ubiquitous strimmer (where 'maintenance' is equated to wantonly cutting thrive: The mulch is topped up 'at least once a year' - usually after getting a big 'winter weed' done, cutting herself was 'very fortunate early on to have such good gardening friends' to share ideas and indeed cuttings

decades of use in the UK gardens where you know exactly which to collect seed, which to take soft tip cuttings

for example, which was considered extinct till 1979, at which point a single tree was discovered and cuttings

heartbreaking story of Temperate House Manager Dave Cooke getting out a deckchair to sit and watch the cutting