Layering: propagate your plants by layering

Layering roots a stem while it's still attached to the parent plant, which keeps feeding it until roots form. The result is a high success rate, even on plants that are hard to root from cuttings — magnolia, hazel, fig, woody houseplants. Simple layering, mound layering, air layering in a sleeve of sphagnum moss: you separate the new plant once it's well rooted. It's slow but very reliable, and needs no complex kit. Here too, the new plant is a clone of the parent. Our video layering guides are below.