If you have berry bushes, such as Saskatoon, and want even more in your patch, Local Garden Guru Sherri Roberts shared some propagation.
"It depends. If you looked at the bush does it have multiple stems on it, and has it kind of spread out with little rooted branches that you can cut off and dig up?"
If so, those can be transplanted.
"You can cheat a little bit, so you've got a Saskatoon bush and it's got lots of branches on it, and they're younger, supple branches. You can pick out a branch that you like; it's going to be at the outer edge of the bush and you go and you nick it with a knife, and then you get some rooting powder, you sprinkle it on there, and then you dig a hole and you take that and you bury it and then it will root in that spot," she shared.
Then, once the roots are formed, you cut the plant away from the parent plant.
Roberts offered a caution to those who may have purchased the original plant in a container from a retailer: check if the plant is a patented variety.
"What most people don't understand is, nowadays the horticulture industry has gone just like the farming industry. There are patents on things. And if it's a patented product, by law, you really don't have the right to reproduce it."
While some of the bushes available for purchase from garden centers are not patented, it's important to verify this before attempting propagation methods of any kind.
"If they're patented, they'll have a little circle on it, [that says patented]," she noted. "That means that there's plant-breeder rights connected with that bush, and you don't have the right to propagate it. Same with seeds in the flowers and stuff. You can keep the seeds yourself, but you can't give it away to somebody else, because how does that breeder get paid back for all the effort and time that they put into creating that?"
"Not all varieties are patented. Most plants have a little sticker on them, they'll say, 'patented variety' and then shrubbery, you'll see a little, round tag that's on them, that'll say 'patent'."