Continuing with the theme of propagation I would like to say a few words about two other ways to increase your stock of plants. Up to now I have been dealing with cuttings, which involve separating a piece from the parent plant and trying to get it to form roots. Today I want to tell you about layering and air layering.  These are techniques which try to encourage shoots to form roots whilst they are still on the parent plant after which they are separated from it.

Layering can be done on many plants.  It is done most successfully at the start of the …..