Make your own plants

Here's a few links to help you make new plants for swapping. There are other general gardening links on the Links page. By the way, you'll find that some of your plants are quite good at propagating themselves by self-seeding and spreading.

Taking cuttings

A comprehensive, illustrated guide to taking cuttings
http://www.letsgogardening.co.uk/Information/Cuttings.htm

Dividing plants

Dividing perennials http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/propagation
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Watch Sarah Raven dividing a herbaceous perennial http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/projects/herbaceous-perennials-dividing/

Layering

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/propagation
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Seeds

A website devoted entirely to seeds http://www.theseedsite.co.uk/

Saving/collecting seeds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/propagation
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BBC's How To for sowing seeds http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/projects/sow-seeds-indoors/

Garden Organic advice on seed saving http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicgardening/gh_seeds.php

Websites demonstrating a variety of techniques

From seed sowing to layering to grafting, there's more advice on propagating plants than you can shake a set of cuttings at on the wondeful RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) website at http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/problems_propagation.asp.

Lots of useful advice from the lovely BBC website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/propagation_index.shtml, including guides on propagating particular plants

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