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You can propagate plants in multiple different ways, including leaf cuttings, seeds, etc. You can use leaf cuttings to propagate African violets and Gloxinia. Leaf cutting is when you cut the leaf where it joins the stem. You then put the leaf in a starting mixture to allow it to grow. Roots will begin to grow from the stem within a few weeks. Once the roots start to grow, you can transplant the new plant into regular potting soil.

The long, pointed foliage of the Sansevieria can also be propagated by leaf cuttings. It is done slightly differently though. You should cut the leaves into four-inch sections and set them in the starting mixture right side up. Roots will come out of the bottom where you cut.

The Rex Begonia requires a separate technique for leaf cutting propagation. You should cut across the thick veins on the underside of the leaves with a razor. The cut leaves should then be placed face up in he starting mixture. You need to make sure the leaf has good contact with the soil, so toothpicks or pins should be used.

Not only will creating new houseplants from leaf cuttings create new healthy plants, but it will actually be good for the plants that the cuttings come from as well. Pinching, pruning, and cutting back plants will grow more evenly. They will grow tall and uneven with a lack of foliage low on the plant if you do nothing to prune the plant. You want the plants to be full and even throughout the entire plant. They should look more like bushes than trees. You have to prune vines and trailers as well to avoid uneven growth.

Don't worry about cutting off the center of a healthy young plant, or a branch that is just about to flower. It will be tough to convince yourself to do it because it goes against what you would naturally think, but it will help the plant in the long run and it is a part of . You must prune them if they will grow into nice looking plants. You want to prune so the plant can use that energy to grow in other ways.

Growing an indoor garden yourself is extremely satisfying. Growing house plants yourself is very inexpensive and the time you spend working on it is very worthwhile and fun.

Creating A New Old House

There has been a long held view that Catalogue and Home Shopping companies are a little staid, a little outdated or just plain old old-fashioned. There is also a slightly more modern view that the internet and shopping on the internet in particular, is for techies or whiz kids or dare I say, for young people.

I'm sure you'll have your own view on the matter, but opinions aside, there is a growing audience who recognise that neither viewpoint has any substance today.

If there's such a thing as a mercenary shopper, then I believe I'm it, and I strongly urge you to join me. Any retailer of any description will curse me for saying this but the fact is, there are an incredible number of places for you to spend your hard earned cash and in today's retail environment, finding the best deal no longer involves fighting your way through the weekend crowds or pounding the pavements up and down the high street.

The Internet has brought the high street right into your living room and in doing so it has also brought both opportunity and dilemma for both the staid old Catalogue businesses and, the snappy new web only retailers. It's also because of the internet that neither can afford to sit on their laurels.

Catalogue and Home Shopping retailers can no longer rely on the lure of extended credit terms to attract new customers because credit can now be obtained with ease and far cheaper, which is where the newer internet only retailers are cashing in. It's fair to say that the traditional Catalogue and Home Shopping retailers recognise this fact and the more astute ones now have an internet presence as well. However, despite their traditional credit hungry customers being in decline, they still account for a significant chunk of their business and as such, cutting them loose would be commercial suicide. They have no choice but to endeavour to satisfy their old customers and their new ones.

The upshot of these dilemmas for you and I is opportunity. To keep pace with web only retailers, Catalogue and Home Shopping retailers are being forced to come up with new initiatives to attract new customers and yet despite the undoubted success of some of these new initiatives, there is no shortage of irony when they play their ace. Their ace is that they still produce printed catalogues and not only that, they produce very good printed catalogues. The production of these very good catalogues has been fine tuned over many, many years and to their readers, they have always been held dear. The printed catalogue of today is a brilliant shop window which offers plenty of product information, beautiful detail filled photography which is as colour accurate as possible to ensure customer satisfaction.

The new mercenary shoppers (me!) are taking advantage of, and are enjoying the opportunity to pick up a catalogue, browse, read and compare, before going online to browse, read and compare, and only when they have found the best deal, do they place an order. No crowds, no queues, no sore feet, no communal changing rooms just the best possible choice at the best possible price. Consumer heaven.

I urge you to become a mercenary shopper. Go online, order a free catalogue and browse, read and compare to your hearts content and then, and only then, part with your hard earned cash and enjoy your choice.

As always, Happy shopping.

Copyright (c) 2007 Sam Benton

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