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Some plants produce new plants on their own. You can
propagate them by planting these new ones.
Viviparous leaves. The
bryophyllum plant and some kalanchoes have this kind of
leaf. This means that small plants from on the edges of the
leaves. Another one that is fairly common is the hen and
chickens fern (called that because you take the little
"chicken" ferns off the leaf of the main fern, and can plant
them so they grow into another fern!)You can pick them off
and pot them in a regular soil mix.
This is another kind of fern, not a hen and
chicken
A runner is along stem that
produces new plants at its nodes. You can remove the runner
with its small plant and root it under plastic or you can
simply set a small pot of good soil near the parent plant
and fasten the runner to the soil. When the runner plant
roots, cut it free.
Stawberry plants grow like this, and so does lamium. If
you want to see how this works, ask Miss Currie to bring you
in some lamium from her garden.
Suckers. Some trees and shrubs
send up suckers from their roots. These are shoots that can
be dug up and cut free, then planted.
Separation of bulbs (tulip, narcissus, hyacinth,
amaryllis) or corms (gladiolus, crocus) means breaking off
the small bulbs or corms that form around a large one. Each
of these can then be planted in the garden.
Cross section of a daffodil bulb. Small
bulbs will later grow around the base.
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