The gardening workshop

Today I went to a gardening workshop for kids. I learned about sowing, transplanting, and propagating. I looked at some of the plants there. They were truly exotic! There was a purple chili, and a big purple flower, which looked like a lettuce first, but the teacher told me it was really a flower. There were pink and white roses too. There were flowers resembling hibiscuses and there was spinach, basil, tomato, papaya, and salad-leaf plants. Ok, you actually want to hear what I did there, right? Well, let me tell you. All the kids (including me!) planted sunflower and salad-leaf. There was actually choice of either sunflower/bean seeds, but everybody, obviously, chose sunflower. After we had planted our seeds, we watered them and put them on a small window edge that looked into the balcony so we could take them home. After that, we learned transplanting. She showed us dahlias and daisies that were ready to transplant. Now, I must mention that they were mostly small kids there, apart from 2 or 3 big girls. So she called us big girls to transplant the daisies and dahlias. After that, we did propagating. She showed us a China Rose plant as she explained that we are going to propagate this plant. Now, we were all confused. What is propagating? This question came into our minds, but the question was finished right as she started explaining. She cut a small twig from china rose, making sure a little bit of brown was at the bottom. Then, she removed all the leaves from the bottom, and put the stem in a glass of water, making sure no leaves were in the water. She gave a stem like this to everybody and then said that we can put it in a glass of water at home. Then when the roots will grow, we would sow it. At the end of the workshop she gave a plant growth chart, a small tray to keep our plants in, and then we all sat down for Oreos. I loved this workshop a lot, and I just can't wait for my plants to grow!