Propagating Plants

What a wonderful, informative book. I wish I had found it earlier in my gardening years, it would've saved me so much money, time and disappointment!

I am trying to make extra money by propogating plants from my garden, and this book is showing me how to do that! Lots of pictures and explanations for nearly every kind of plant you can think of. I'm really learning a ton about plant reproduction and the various ways that you can clone plants, etc.

I had been experimenting with basic plant cuttings with varying results and was disappointed by the lack of detailed information available on the internet to figure out where I was going wrong. This book is exactly what I was looking for. There is a primer at the beginning of the book to help you with the techniques followed by plant-by-plant instruction for each method of propagation, complete with visual aides. I learned more in two pages of this book than I did from hopping around from blog to blog, video to video for months. If you are looking for an authoritative guide on plant propagation, save yourself from frustration and pick up this book.

Loads of great info!

good book

The book is absolutely full of information on plant propagation. I plan on buying it again in hard copy format for the color pictures. The kindle edition is blurry and you have to zoom in to read. No taking notes or highlighting.

If you garden like I do you are always trying to find ways to increase the number of plants that are successful in your garden without directly purchasing the plant again. This book discusses and shows you how to propagate a huge variety of plants, including houseplants, perennials, shrubs trees and bulbs. Each plant type is sorted by genera so it's easy to find almost every kind of plant and determine which propagation methods will work best for each species. Well written and clear instructions too.

Great book for any age - got this as a present for a young girl who wanted to learn the basics of gardening! Definitely does a great job providing best timing of planting and insight on characteristics

A comprehensive text book which covers most aspects of propagation in some detail and for a wide variety of plant types. A useful and interesting read. My only regret is that this edition is not searchable although it does have a well bookmarked table of contents.

The book includes instructions for propagating both house and outdoor plants. Lots of pictures. Very detailed.

Excellent information

Great book, with a lot of technical info. There is alot of repetition, but that's what happens when you have a book listing how-to for different species. I don't entirely trust it though; it is well known that it's a bad idea to propagate apples from seed, because you will very likely not get a true clone. This is not mentioned though, and seed is a recommended propagation method for the malus species. I'm a little bit wary of the recommendations for other species as a result. Excellent guide to the more technical prop methods though. Tons of great pictures.

This is not a real ebook in the sense you may be used to with most kindle books. It is a scan of the paper version, which, as it is large format is very hard to read on a kindle screen. Functionality is likewise limited.