Do you ever look at your few, measly little house plans and think “Man if I had more plants in here, this room would really come together”?

Do you wander through the house plant section of Home Depot every time you go to pick up an extension cord, but never purchase any new plants?

Well, boy do I have news for you. Many common house plants can be easily propagated and turned into new plants, especially if the original plant is healthy. A quick Google search will let you know whether you need to separate some root balls or take a simple cutting and put it in water. And soon you will have twice or three times as many plants.

Sure, it would be nice to immediately have a full, luscious fern, but those cost money. Growing a tiny propagate into a just-as-beautiful fern only takes time. Some people say that time is money and to an extent that is true. But sometimes you don’t have any money, and you just have time. Think about all the time that you spent deciding whether or not to spend money on a new house plant. You are probably going to spend so much longer waffling back-and-forth, but if you just nipped off that spider plant pup and planted it today you would have a nice fully mature plant by time you would have decided to buy one. And all you will have to buy is another pot and some dirt. Much cheaper than a whole new plant.

Plants: get them for free from your own house.

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