My phlox self-sows freely and I see new young seedlings coming up every spring. But I let the flowers go to seed and sometimes leave the dried seed heads on the plants all winter. If you already have phlox growing in your garden and you didn't deadhead, look around next spring for small seedlings within about 2' of the parent plants. -- BC --

No, Jroot. I'm keeping this beautiful tree, for sure. I have never tried clippings from it, and don't know if it would work. But there's no need to try, because this tree is prolific with seed, which is what I am offering. The seeds are viable and extrememly easy to grow.

I gather the seed in Nov/Dec and usually sow in January in the greenhouse. One flower head will produce way more seed than you will ever use as the seed is about the same size and texture as dust. Prepare a seed flat and I use Metromix360, but about any soilless mix should work and dampen the media, sprinkle the seed like salt and pepper, pat it down, keep warm and moist, and germination usually occurs in 10 days. I transplant as soon as a couple sets of true leaves have emerged into 2.5 inch pots using a compost:pine bark:perlite mix and gradually move up in pot size, eventually going into a trade 1 gallon #300 in mid summer. First years growth can be as much as 15 inches and I pinch stems to promote more branching. If you need to wait till warm weather occurs for seeding, your growth will be considerably less. These can be planted out the second year and some may bloom, third year for sure. I do only corrective pruning 2nd and 3rd year, and the 4th year prune to get the size plant I want. Give it a try and Good Luck I did find a picture of that Little Lamb bed you were asking about. Go the website I linked, scroll to the bottom of the first Photo page and click on page 3. Image DSC6517 is the Little Lamb bed and 6505-6516 are some of the 4 year old seedlings grown form seed collected from Pink Diamond. Here is a link that might be useful: Garden Gallery Photos

Opps....posted in wrong forum...I blindly followed the propogation link on the main webpage.