Lady's smock Cardamine pratense, food plant of orange tip butterfly caterpillars, is very easy to propagate quickly from leaf cuttings. First ………… Thread 1/5

… pick a few basal leaves from an established plant, then …. Thread 2/5

…. press the leaves into the surface of wet (Sphagnum-free) compost and spray with water, and ….. thread 3/5

…. cover with a plastic food tub, or similar. Leave in a shady spot, and, within about 10 days ….. Thread 4/5

….. roots and shoots will appear at the base of every leaflet. Once these have rooted in the compost and grown a bit they can be separately transplanted outside. They establish well in grass, where they continue to self-propagate like this