Propagating Plants from the Garden: A Demonstration

Local horticulturist and garden communicator Peggy Riccio will show how home gardeners can vegetatively propagate the plants in their garden in order to make more. Peggy will bring plants from her garden to show how one can take stem and leaf cuttings and how one can divide common ornamental garden plants. She'll also discuss the supplies such as growing media, containers, and rooting hormones, and optimal times to propagate. Participants can bring bags to take home the cuttings/divisions to pot up.

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Peggy Riccio's website, Pegplant.com, is an online resource for gardeners in the DC metro area. Based on the Welcome Wagon concept, Pegplant has everything one needs to know about gardening if new to the area or new to gardening. Resources include local nurseries, public gardens, garden clubs and plant societies, books, master gardener programs, cooperative extension agents, and more. She also publishes a monthly list of gardening events in the DC metro area and recently published gardening books. Every month, Peggy issues a free, local gardening newsletter, Pegplant’s Post Gardening Newsletter. People can subscribe by entering their email address on the website.

 

Peggy is a member of the Camelot Garden Club and serves as the Education Chair for the Herb Society of America. In 2024, she completed four years as the chair of the local Potomac Unit of the Herb Society. For these organizations she has written blogs and newsletter articles and, during the pandemic, she initiated a Facebook group called Culinary Herbs and Spices. She also has served as the blog administrator for the National Garden Clubs from 2021 to 2023 and is a member of GardenComm, the professional association of garden communicators.

 

Peggy has been writing for gardening magazines for more than 30 years, penning more than 100 articles published in Horticulture, The American Gardener, Chesapeake Home, Early American Life, Virginia Gardener, the National Gardener, Southern Living, and Birds & Blooms.

 

She gives hands on workshop and slide presentations on a variety of gardening topics. She has presented at the Fairfax County Public Library branches, Merrifield Garden Center, Green Spring Gardens, Brookside Gardens, and various garden clubs and master gardener groups. The current list of topics is on the pegplant.com website. She is very active on social media, follow her @pegplant on Facebook and Instagram.

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Location: The Falls Church Episcopal at 115 East Fairfax Street, Falls Church.​