The economics and craft of a rooted cutting

A single rooted cutting is where a nursery's whole year begins. This journal takes an editorial look at vegetative propagation — the methods, the growers, and the trade-offs between speed, uniformity, and survival that shape what reaches a garden centre.

We cover technique and context: why certain crops are propagated the way they are, how commercial stock plants are managed, and where hobby practice and industry practice quietly diverge.