Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcasts cabin

spirit here. I've got Chris from Fluent Garden, a horticulturist and a garden

consultant up in Vancouver, British Columbia. So Chris, we've talked a lot

about perennials, of course, but what about propagating them? You know, I think

maybe sometimes people think they're harder to do for some reason. Is that true?

And if it is or isn't, what are your favorite ways to do it?

Actually, I find a vegetative propagation or cloning of a lot of these perennial

plants really rewarding. And it makes this whole gardening experience a lot less

expensive over time. Like in the last episode, we talked about like my Apple bed

and how it's covered with creeping time. And I was able to get so much creeping

time because I just divided my plants every spring. So really, I started off

with a few four inch pots. And I mean, any perennials, they're going to cost a good

amount of money. I remember buying those pots and they were like $4.99, $5.00

Canadian. I was like, oh, okay, investment. But I bought them and I only had to buy

them once. So I plopped them in the ground. They did really well because I chose a spot

that I knew they were going to thrive in. And now every spring, I just divide. And like we can

go into like different methods, like the first one. So this time is a great example.

This is, I feel the easiest and the more forgiving method if people are interested in

propagating their own plants. Now, this doesn't work for every type of plant. It's really good

for herbaceous perennials with like fleshy or fibers crowns. So you just have to get to know your

plant or if you have some plants in your garden, all you have to do is just like Google,

like it's root system or like how to propagate it. You're going to, you're bound to find some

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