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Multiplying Your Stock: Tips for Dividing and Transplanting Native Plants
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January 13, 2011
Multiplying Your Stock: Tips for Dividing and Transplanting Native Plants
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Discover ways to “grow your investment” using your own garden plantings. After a brief discussion of plant physiology, explore various methods of vegetation propagation such as stem and root cuttings, rhizome notching, and divisions of existing clumps. Using the stockbeds at the Garden in the Woods as a laboratory, learn techniques that can be applied to your home garden with species such as trillium, Cypripediuim, Polygonatum and more. Make divisions of mayapple rhizomes to take home.
All materials provided, but feel free to bring your favorite trowels, hand spades, or other garden tools.