How to Plant Baby Rubber Plant Cuttings: Has your Ficus elastica gotten too tall or too leggy? Did you know that you can turn it into a tree form? Here's how to make a Rubber Tree (Rubber Plant) branch out.
For many plants propagating by cuttings in water or mix works just fine. My Rubber Tree Plant was soon to hit the ceiling so I want to share with you how to propagate a Rubber Plant by air layering. This method works on otherhouseplantsbesides the Rubber Plant. For many of them (includi...
When you have a small planting or garden, buying a single lavender plant isn’t typically a great expense. However, if you’d like to create larger plantings, then buying a dozen of them can be. Fortunately, lavender, like many plants, can be propagated from cuttings. That means that if...
You can also air layer, which Gardening Know How explains: “Another method, called air layering, is where you make a cut in a healthy rubber tree houseplant, put a toothpick in the hole, then pack damp moss around the cut. After that, you wrap it with plastic wrap to keep the moist...
How To Propagate Peperomia (Baby Rubber Plant) By: Gary Antosh The Peperomia plant is a very easy plant to propagate. It is grown from the stem, leaf, or tip cuttings. The rooting medium should be very light and airy, and the ends of the cutting should be dipped in a good quality ...
If you're looking for an easy-care houseplant, get a rubber tree! This plant is great for new plant parents and isn't fussy at all.
4. Insert Scion Cutting Into Rootstock Gently press the wedge-shaped end of your cutting into the cut you made on the rootstock stem, aligning the cut ends together to make good contact with each other. 5. Secure the Graft Secure the grafted section with a cut rubber band or grafting tape...
Native plant garden: a garden that’s typically full of low-maintenance plants that attract birds, bees, and butterflies Butterfly garden: a garden that specifically attracts butterflies and also feeds their larvae Cutting garden: a garden filled with flowers grown to be cut and arranged ...
This part of the book also retreads dinosaur and mammal evolution by focusing on what is normally the vegetal backdrop to this story. There are many surprises in store when you take a plant perspective. For example, palaeontology has accustomed us to the idea of five mass extinctions, but, ...
Take into account their flowering and berry-producing habits so they are scattered equally through the hedge and not all clustered in one spot leaving the rest of the hedge bare for months at a time. You may also wish to plant colorful shorter shrubs along the front, in which case consider...