The show garden of the Gardeners’ World presenter and award-winning gardener Carol Klein at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival this week illustrates her twin passions for propagating your own plants and supporting UK nurseries. Contrary to what most people assume, the two are not mutually exclusive, she says.
“When I used to exhibit at Chelsea Flower Show a couple of the old boys would say to me, ‘What are you doing telling people how to grow these plants?’, because [they thought] it would do them out of business. But I have found exactly the opposite. The more people know how to propagate their own, the more they go out to a nursery to buy plants to propagate from, especially from specialists. It’s exponential —
