Pruning And Training Plants

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.

Describes the procedures and techniques for pruning and training, with precise details of what to do, when, and how.

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.

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.

Offers the information gardeners need to maintain attractive, well-pruned, and trained trees, shrubs, climbers, roses, and fruit. Includes a map of hardiness zones. Lots of detail.

How to prune and train plants; including a list of tools and equipment.

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.

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.

Summarizes the information available on current pruning techniques and and training systems. It specifically addresses the problems faced by growers, professionals and students who are new to olive growing.