By Annette Meyer Spring is a good time to garden indoors by propagating houseplants.
Propagation is the production of new plants.
You might want to propagate houseplants in order to give them to friends, or to start a plant over and get rid of an overgrown, unsightly plant. The reproduction of plants without the use of seeds is called vegetative propagation. This is possible because some plants have roots, leaves or stems that are able to produce a whole new plant. Stem cuttings and leaf cuttings are common ways to vegetatively propagate houseplants. Coleus, philodendron and Swedish ivy are plants propagated by stem cuttings.