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RHS Propagating Plants

How to Grow Plants for Free
By DK
Brief Description
A complete guide to everything you need to know about propagating every type of garden plant, from the experts at the RHS. Fill your garden with beautiful plants for next-to-nothing. Do you long to grow your own plants from scratch? This complete guide from the experts... Read More
Format: Hardback
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A complete guide to everything you need to know about propagating every type of garden plant, from the experts at the RHS.

Fill your garden with beautiful plants for next-to-nothing.

Do you long to grow your own plants from scratch? This complete guide from the experts at the RHS will teach you how to propagate every type of plant.

If you're a thrifty gardener who wants more plants for free, then this book is perfect for you! From fruit trees and ornamental shrubs to exotic orchids and succulents, get all the info you need to propagate 1,500+ garden plants.

Crammed with hundreds of step-by-step tutorials and clear advice, ranging from straightforward and simple to more in-depth and challenging. The rating system in the plant-by-plant A-Z dictionaries provides you with a quick reference to the relative ease or difficulty of each method of propagation.

How long do your seedlings need to germinate? What makes a healthy stem cutting? How do you know what type of rootstock to use when grafting plants? Find out the answer to these questions and more in the most comprehensive guide to propagating plants ever published.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241662106

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 January 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: DK

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 261.0mm

Weight: 1261g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Alan Toogood (Editor-in-Chief) is an experienced horticulturist. Having trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, he went on to study at the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden at Wisley, Surrey. He works as a freelance writer and journalist, writing for such magazines as Gardener's Chronicle, Amateur Gardening, RHS's own magazine The Garden, and Greenhouse, of which he was the Editor for many years. With a wealth of expertise behind them, other contributors to this book include the herb expert Jekka McVicar, Vice President of the RHS and President of the Herb Society, known for her organic herb garden in Gloucestershire and renowned orchid expert Wilma Rittershausen.

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