RHS Pruning and Training

RHS Pruning and Training
Author: Christopher Brickell
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0241308518

Cultivate your perfect garden with RHS Pruning & Training's unrivalled guidance for over 800 trees, shrubs, and climbing plants. Fully updated by the RHS experts, RHS Pruning & Training uses clear, step-by-step instructions and fantastic photography to perfectly illustrate the secrets to pruning and training your plants. Whether you're a novice gardener or an amateur expert, RHS Pruning & Training is packed with plenty of information on all plant types including fruits, roses, shrubs, and trees. Learn specialised techniques including coppicing, pollarding, and pinch pruning for specific plant types, and prune your garden to perfection all year round.

Grow Pruning & Training

Grow Pruning & Training
Author: Stephanie Mahon
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2021-03-18
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0241523141

Keep your plants in great shape. Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Pruning & Training contains everything you need to know to care for more than 80 of the most popular shrubs, climbers, and ornamental trees. Get to grips with all the essential techniques with an expert e-guide that focuses on realistic aims and achievable results, then put them to use with an illustrated directory that answers all your pruning and training questions. Includes practical, jargon-free know-how, this easy-to-use e-guide has everything you need to know to help your garden Grow.

The Pruner's Bible

The Pruner's Bible
Author: Steve Bradley
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-03
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780276444142

A plant-by-plant guide to pruning that features 100 of the most popular trees and shrubs. It tells you things you need to know about pruning: why you need to prune, when to do it and what tools are required. It presents step-by-step illustrations and instructions that demonstrate the correct pruning technique for each plant.

Niwaki

Niwaki
Author: Jake Hobson
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2007
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0881928356

Over the years, Japanese gardeners have fine-tuned a distinctive set of pruning techniques that coax out the essential characters of their garden trees, or niwaki. In this highly practical book, Western gardeners are encouraged to draw upon the techniques and sculpt their own garden trees to unique effect. After first discussing the principles that underpin the techniques, the author offers in-depth guidelines for shaping pines, azaleas, conifers, broadleaved evergreens, bamboos and deciduous trees. Throughout the text, step-by-step illustrations accompany the instructions, while abundant photographs and anecdotes bring the ideas surrounding niwaki vividly to life.

Pruning Simplified

Pruning Simplified
Author: Steven Bradley
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604698888

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.

Grow a Little Fruit Tree

Grow a Little Fruit Tree
Author: Ann Ralph
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2015-01-16
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1603428895

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.

Pruning Fruiting Plants

Pruning Fruiting Plants
Author: Richard Bird
Publisher: Southwater Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Fruit
ISBN: 9781844762859

A practical gardener's guide to pruning and training tree fruit and soft fruit, with over 350 photographs and illustrations and easy-to-follow advice

The Ultimate Practical Guide to Pruning and Training

The Ultimate Practical Guide to Pruning and Training
Author: Richard Bird
Publisher: Southwater
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-08-12
Genre: Plants
ISBN: 9781780193533

This how-to guide aims to take the mystery out of pruning, showing that the correct training and cutting of garden plants has many rewards, including better flower and fruit roduction, healthier plants, improved plant shape, and a tidier garden. The book covers ornamental trees, shrubs, topiary, hedges, climbers, wall shrubs and roses. An invaluable directory of ornamental plants looks at a range of species, explaining when and how to prune. There is also advice on pruning and training different tree fruits, climbing fruits and soft fruits. With its practical advice and specially commissioned artworks, this is an essential handbook for all gardeners.