The Ultimate Practical Guide to Pruning and Training: How to Prune and Train Trees, Shrubs, Hedges, Topiary, Tree and Soft Fruit, Climbers and Roses - Couverture rigide

Bird, Richard

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ISBN 10 : 0754819841 ISBN 13 : 9780754819844

Editeur : Lorenz Books, 2009

Synopsis

This essential practical guide aims to take the mystery out of pruning, showing that the correct training and pruning of garden plants has many rewards, including improved flower and fruit production, healthier plants, improved plant shape, and a tidier garden.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This essential practical guide aims to take the mystery out of pruning, showing that the correct training and pruning of garden plants has many rewards, including improved flower and fruit production, healthier plants, improved plant shape, and a tidier garden. Beginning with a helpful introduction, which looks at basic principles and techniques, the chapters are arranged by plant type, covering ornamental trees, shrubs, topiary, hedges, climbers and wall shrubs and roses. Each section includes practical advice, illustrated with step-by-step photographic sequences and artworks, on the initial training of the plant; how to prune the plant once it is established; and how to undertake renovation pruning. Further chapters contain clear advice specifically on training and pruning different tree fruits, climbing fruits, and soft fruits. They are beautifully illustrated with step-by-step artworks which show how to train a range of decorative fruit shapes, including bush and standard trees, cordons and stepovers, fans and espaliers. With over 700 photographs and 270 illustrations, many of them step-by-step , this is the only book on the subject that any gardener will ever need.

Biographie de l'auteur

Richard Bird has been gardening since childhood and currently maintains a large garden where is abiding passion for plants is evident. He has contributed to numerous publications and has been magazine editor for Focus on Plants, The Hardy Plant, Alpine Gardening and the Alpine Gardening Society's magazine Bulletin. He is also a full-time author on gardens and plants and has written nearly 30 books on subjects as diverse as alpines and rock gardens, lilies, perennials, kitchen gardening, organic gardening and window boxes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lorenz Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0754819841
• ISBN 13: 9780754819844
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible