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birds chirping Hi I am Tracy Jessen
One of the gardeners here at the Halifax Public Gardens
Today I welcome you to our greenhouses And tell you a little bit about how we start
our plants The ones that will be used in our carpet beds
in the Public Gardens We have two carpet beds you would recognize
them as a logo or a picture that are made with living
plants We use two main types of plants one is called
sage and The other one is called Alternanthera
And we use those two types of plants because They are easily trimmed they are compact and
They make a solid block of colour which is essential when
You are trying to create an image So today what we are doing is propogation
and propogation is basically creating more plants from a single mother plant.
So in February early March we start taking cuttings
From older plants that have new growth Best to have the new growth as you have
Better luck getting rooting So we take the cutting place it in a little
bit of rooting hormone
Then the plant goes into the soil From there we will bring it into the greenhouse
And care for it for about a month Until it establishes itself with new roots
These will grow until approximately the beginning of June
That is when we normally plant the carpet beds
And they will go out into the garden and we will care for them from then on out
We welcome you to come down to the Halifax Public Gardens
To see what is growing birds chirping