This talk and all our lectures are FREE for Friends of the Botanical Gardens to attend. Members of the public are also welcome to join us on payment of £5 at the door on the day. Live talks are held in the Education Centre in the grounds of the Botanical Gardens - easily accessed via the Thompson Road Entrance.

We all want something for nothing and propagation is a simple way of producing lots of new plants – for almost next to nothing!
Horticultural consultant Geoff Hodge will provide hints, tips and advice and answer all your questions on vegetative propagation - from splitting herbaceous plants to taking cuttings from a wide range of garden plants.

Geoff Hodge is a freelance garden writer and editor, writing for and working for various national gardening magazines and websites. Previously, he was the Online Editor for the Royal Horticultural Society, Gardening Editor and Editor of Garden News magazine and Technical Editor of Garden Answers magazine. He has written nine gardening books, including five for the RHS, with titles ranging from pruning and propagation to allotments and bulbs and a topic close to his heart – botany for gardeners.

He is a regular guest on gardening programmes on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and he appears on Q&A panels at flower shows across the country, gives lots of talks and demonstrations at garden centres, garden shows and for gardening clubs and answers hundreds of gardening questions every year for various organisations.