"With its straightforward prose and diagram, The Pruning Book is a good antidote to pruning panic, an affliction known to experienced and novice gardeners alike."

Learn How To:

• Train, maintain, and renovate a plan at any stage of it's life
• Control plant size
• Produce bountiful, beautiful fruit and flowers
• Sustain or restore plant health
• Determine plant types by their growth patterns
• Choose the right tool for the cut
• Use specialty techniques such as espalier, bonsai and topiary

Book Contents:

The basics

• Why prune?
• Tools of the trade
• Plant response to pruning

The plans

• Deciduous ornamental bushes
• Deciduous ornamental trees
• Evergreen trees and bushes
• Ornamental vines
• Edible fruits and nuts
• Houseplants
• Herbaceous plants

Specialised pruning techniques

• Pollarding
• Pleaching
• Topiary
• Standards
• Mowing
• Bonsai
• Espalier