How to propagate plants to take to your new garden

Moving home? In this video guide, Carol Klein shows you how to propagate plants to take with you.

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If you’re moving house, you’ll undoubtedly want to take some of your favourite plants with you. The easiest way to do this is to take cuttings and collect seeds, and this video clip from Gardeners’ World shows you how. Carol Klein demonstrates how to take late-summer cuttings from perennials such as penstemons, asters, phlox, lavender and Ageratina altissima ‘Chocolate’, and how to collect ripe seeds from annuals such as calendula and Cerinthe major ‘Purpurascens’.

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