Trade secrets: take a clematis cutting

Encourage fresh growth and bigger, better blooms

For many gardeners, dividing plants is their first experience of propagation, in other words, making more plants for free. In some cases it may be someone else who has divided them – those presents we

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Matt is Head of Horticulture and Landscape Strategy at The Royal Parks. A keen fruit, vegetable and house-plant grower, Anne was formerly the glasshouse supervisor at RHS Garden Wisley. Caroline Salis

Make new phlox plants for free by taking root cuttings of your established plants before they start sending up their spring shoots. Take them from plants dug up from the garden or from pot-grown speci