Property News · October 16, 2016

Gardens: autumn is about beginnings


Now’s the time to enjoy the miracle of home cloningIt’s autumn, the season of crisp evenings, falling leaves and gardening journalists reusing their favourite autumnal phrase: “putting the garden to bed”. Seriously, I’ve been reading that since I was a kid in the 1990s and still have no idea what it means.To me, autumn shouldn’t be a time to resign yourself to outdoor tidying up and throwing in the trowel, for horticulturally this is also a time of new beginnings. Nowhere is this more the case than the miracle of home cloning that is taking hardwood cuttings. Giving you plants for free in exchange for very little time and effort, these are probably the easiest of all cuttings to take, yet (rather conveniently) they also work well on some of the more expensive species. If you have never done it before, this weekend is your chance. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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