Pruning and Training

Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465465316
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Featuring more than 800 plants, Pruning and Training is a freshly redesigned and fully comprehensive guide to cultivating your perfect garden. Pruning and Training has step-by-step instructions to pruning and training hundreds of trees, shrubs, and climbing plants. With chapters on everything from rosebushes to peach trees, Pruning and Training has advice for every garden and gardener. With its practical A-Z approach, organized by plant type, Pruning and Training displays information in an easy-to-follow format and has guides to specialized techniques for each plant type, including coppicing and pollarding for trees and pinch pruning for shrubs. Learn the basic training techniques for climbing plants and see how to maintain ornamental shrubs in your garden, including grasses for your topiary or hedges and bamboo. Pruning and Training is the essential guide to pruning and training your garden plants with confidence.

Pruning and Training, Revised New Edition

Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465495126
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Featuring more than 800 plants and step-by-step instructions to pruning and training hundreds of trees, shrubs, and climbing plants, this comprehensive guide is freshly redesigned to help cultivate your perfect garden. With chapters on everything from rosebushes to peach trees, Pruning and Training has advice for every garden and gardener. Using a practical A–Z approach, organized by plant type, information is displayed in an easy-to-follow format and annotated illustrations that carefully guides readers on specialized techniques for each plant type, including coppicing and pollarding for trees and pinch pruning for shrubs. Learn the basic training techniques for climbers and see how to maintain ornamental shrubs in your garden, including grasses for your topiary or hedges and bamboo. Train jasmine to climb a wall, learn where to prune a rose, and increase your fruit tree's yield. Pruning and Training is the essential guide to pruning and training your garden plants with confidence.

Pruning Made Easy

Author: Lewis Hill
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 1580170064
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Proper pruning will keep your landscape beautiful and thriving year after year. This authoritative guide includes more than 300 step-by-step illustrations to clearly demonstrate the correct pruning procedures for a variety of trees, shrubs, hedges, vines, and flowers. Lewis Hill offers expert advice on when, how, and why each type of plant should be pruned, safety considerations, and techniques for maintaining your pruning tools. Encouraging you to get creative, Hill even shows you how to shape your own topiaries and train espaliers.

The Pruning Book

Author: Lee Reich
Publisher: Taunton Press
ISBN: 1600850952
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
A collection of over 350 color photos and detailed drawings describing the techniques to pruning various plants, shrubs, and trees, with advice on restoring plant health, choosing the right tool for the job, and more.

An Illustrated Guide to Pruning

Author: Edward F. Gilman
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9781111307301
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Well written and easy to understand, An ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO PRUNING, Third Edition is filled with updated illustrations, photographs, and examples designed to help readers understand and implement the appropriate pruning practices that are vital to developing sustainable structure in the first 25 years of a tree's life. With coverage of numerous different tree species as well as information about the challenges associated with pruning such as disease prevention, root pruning, mature tree pruning, and restoration following storms, students will be prepared to identify and understand good tree structure and pruning practices. Filled with simple tables, lists, and strategies, this completely updated guide to pruning makes it easy to teach the presented pruning techniques in accordance with nationally recognized ANSI A-300 standards. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Pruning Simplified

Author: Steven Bradley
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604698888
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Paying a professional to prune your trees and shrubs is an unnecessary expense. You can tackle most trees and shrubs on your own, and Pruning Simplified by Steven Bradley makes it easier than ever to learn how to prune. He offers expert advice on the best tools for the job, specific details on when to prune, and clear instructions on how to prune. This plant-by-plant guide profiles 50 of the most popular trees and shrubs, including azaleas, camellias, clematis, and more. Each plant profile includes illustrated, easy-to-follow instructions that will ensure you make the right cut the first time.

Illustrated Practical Encyclopedia of Pruning, Training and Topiary

Author: Richard Bird
Publisher: Southwater
ISBN: 9781846814723
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"A definitive guide to pruning and training decorative and fruiting plants. Provides advice on pruning and training methods for every kind of ornamental plant. A helpful section explains how to train and prune fruit trees, climbing fruit, and soft fruit. All techniques and projects are shown in close-up step-by-step photography and diagrams, making the tasks absolutely clear and easy to follow. Contains an easy-to-use plant directory, describing the timing, frequency and method of pruning for a range of ornamental plants. Illustrated with over 700 photographs, and more than 270 specially commissioned artworks."--Back cover

Essential Pruning Techniques

Author: George E. Brown
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 160469288X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 405

Book Description
“Walks any would-be arborist through a veritable dictionary of trees, from abelias to zenobias.” —The New York Times Book Review Pruning is an indispensable part of garden maintenance, but it is also one of the most difficult. Successful pruning requires a thorough knowledge of a plant’s growth and flowering habits. In Essential Pruning Techniques Tony Kirkham—the head of the arboretum and gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew—shares his decades of knowledge and expertise and expands on the groundbreaking work done by George E. Brown. Step-by-step photographs clearly show the general principles of pruning, and profiles of 379 woody plants include advice on habit, attributes, reasons for pruning, and the best time to prune. Essential Pruning Techniques is a must-have reference for home gardeners and professionals.

Grow a Little Fruit Tree

Author: Ann Ralph
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1603428895
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
Grow your own apples, figs, plums, cherries, pears, apricots, and peaches in even the smallest backyard! Ann Ralph shows you how to cultivate small yet abundant fruit trees using a variety of specialized pruning techniques. With dozens of simple and effective strategies for keeping an ordinary fruit tree from growing too large, you’ll keep your gardening duties manageable while at the same time reaping a bountiful harvest. These little fruit trees are easy to maintain and make a lovely addition to any home landscape.

How to Prune Almost Everything

Author: John Philip Baumgardt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.