Learn to propagate plants up to the highest professional standard.
Learn the different cutting and splitting techniques required for the full range of popular herbaceous perennials found in a Cottage Garden.
Unlimited Access After Purchase: Come back and review parts of the course anytime after completion.
BONUS: gain access to a demonstration library of Rosy propagating the most popular varieties sold on her plant nursery. More varieties will be added throughout the growing year.
The Course
Rosy Hardy has taken her world class propagation workshops and transformed them into a easily accessible online course.
Get the absolute most from the plants you already have by learning the skill of propagation to turn your existing plants into multiple young offshoots.
The course teaches you propagation via multiple different cutting techniques, as well propagation from seed and division.
Rosy also teaches the aftercare required to make these methods ultimately successful.
In addition to herbaceous perennials, this course also teaches propagation of certain shrubs via semi-ripe cutting techniques. It does not however cover techniques such as grafting or layering.
Curriculum
Introduction
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Setting Up For Propagation
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Propagation by Cutting
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- 3.0 All The Cuttings Theory You Need to Know (9:56)
- 3.1 Soft Tip Cuttings (23:49)
- 3.2 Root Cuttings (18:28)
- 3.3 Basal Cuttings (9:50)
- 3.4 Semi Ripe Cuttings (Shrubs) (8:57)
- 3.5 Cheats/Runners/Irish Cuttings (6:48)
- 3.6 Leaf Cuttings (3:54)
- 3.7 (New) Heel Cuttings (1:44)
- 3.8 (New) Layering Herbaceous Perennials (4:30)
- 3.9 (New) Split Stem Cuttings (2:47)
- BONUS: Inexpensive Alternative to Rooting Hormone You Can Make Yourself (1:38)
- BONUS: Propagation Timetable Spreadsheet (UK Zone 8)
Growing from Seed
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Propagation by Splitting
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Aftercare & Growing On
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Bonus: Rosy's Cutting Demo Library
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- Achillea: Basal Cutting (2:29)
- Campanula: Tip Cutting (1:38)
- Erysimum: Tip Cutting (2:21)
- Euphorbia characias: Tip Cutting (4:33)
- Geranium: Tip Cutting (1:26)
- Geum: Basal Cutting (2:55)
- Lychnis/Silene: Basal Cutting (2:31)
- Monarda: Tip Cutting (2:53)
- Penstemon: Tip Cutting (1:07)
- Rosa (Rose): Tip Cutting (0:55)
- Salvia Tip Cutting Cerro Potosi (1:43)
- Lamium: Tip Cutting (New) (1:55)
- Epimedium Basal Cutting (New) (2:40)
- Chrysanthemum Tip Cutting (New) (1:42)
- Dianthus Cuttings (New) (2:03)
- Verbena Tip Cutting Verbena Bampton (New) (1:33)
- Artemisia Tip Cutting (New) (2:15)
- Heuchera Basal Cutting Heuchera Americana (New) (3:02)
- Centaurea Basal Cuttings (New) (1:33)
- Thalictrum Small Splits (New) (3:00)
- Helianthus Division (New) (0:59)
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Your instructor
Rosy Hardy is a renowned horticulturalist based in Hampshire, UK (equivalent to growing zone 8a).
Rosy has 40 years experience as a commercial grower of herbaceous perennial and is the owner and proprietor of Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants.
Rosy has also carved out a niche on YouTube as a gardening educator in tandem with numerous workshops/lectures she has run in person at the nursery and garden clubs.
As a nursery owner she has propagated and grown plants for award winning show gardens at flower shows such as RHS Chelsea & BBC Gardeners World Live.
In 2019 she was recognised for her work as a grower, being named an Honorary Vice President of the RHS/