Check out Michael Dirr's books on propagation of woody plants. He has several books out there on propagation. If you want a website check freeplants.com Mike McGroarty has a lot of articles on how to propagate shrubs etc. He also has a free forum you can check out http://www.network54.com/Forum/519353/, and he has a simple upside down fish tank method you could try. I cannot tell you exactly what you can do this time of year in zone 7. Maybe someone from your zone can help with that. I do all my propagating outside.

I'm from zone 7 and I've done tons of propagating for my business (I'm 17 btw). The best way to propagate is use Mike McGroarty's systems (and he has many of them) to creat you own personalized system. You can't succeed if you don't fail, so don't be afraid to just try it one year. It's one thing talking about it, but it's another thing doing it. You'll learn a on more experimenting yourself than reading about it. But...if you really want good information...Check out freeplants.com I left a link for you at the bottom of this post. Hope you fiure everything out. BTW Mike lives in like Ohio, and he does all his propagating outside...

Here is a link that might be useful: Freeplants.com!!!!!

Dirr's books are defiently the way to go. The second edition was just released but it is a little difficult to find. I'm currently a horticulture student at NMSU and it is available at our bookstore but is very hard to find online. I would defiently wait until you can get the second edition because it is the most up-to-date edition. Here is the only page I could find with this edition. http://www.allbookstores.com/book/0942375092/Michael_A_Dirr/Reference_Manual_Of_Woody_Plant_Propagation.html

Thank you so much for the suggestions. I will look into all of the sites as well as the books suggested. It is a small world, jrod, you are a student at NMSU, I graduated from NMSU in 1985.

It really is a small world. It's good to see someone else from NMSU on the board. Good luck w/ the propagation!

hortiscape nursery ... thank you so much for that awesome site ... i have just spent an hour there! ... propagating (just for the fun of it) is my mostest, bestest gardening project! (grin)

Phyl