There are many benefits to propagating plants from hardwood cuttings. It's quite low-maintenance, the stems are often more resilient than softwood cuttings and it can reliably allow you multiply the plants in your yard.
When learning how to take cuttings, it's important to also get to grips with the best time to take cuttings from the specific plants you're trying to propagate. Growing a tree from a branch, for example, is best done when the tree is dormant in fall. Other deciduous shrubs are likewise best propagated when branches and stems are bare and their leaves have fallen.
