RHS Pruning & Training - Hardcover

Christopher Brickell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 024128290X ISBN 13: 9780241282908

Publisher: DK, 2017

Synopsis

Cut trees and plants at the right time - this pruning and plant training guide will show you how.

Keep your garden in top shape with RHS''s guide to pruning over 800 plants, shrubs, fruit bushes, ornamental trees, and climbing plants.

RHS Pruning and Training (Revised Edition), is packed with tips and advice on keeping your plants neat, tidy, and growing. Inside you will find:

- Comprehensive guidance for pruning and training over 800 plants
- Clear artworks and step-by-step photographs to guide horticultural experts and gardening novices alike
- A practical A-Z approach, organised by plant type, displays detailed information in an easy-to-use format
- Guides to specialised techniques for each plant type, such as renovation pruning, pollarding, fruit bush training, topiary, and pinch pruning.

Gardening design is so much more than aesthetic! Knowing how to prune and shape plants correctly will help you achieve the best displays of flowers, produce bumper crops of fruit, and help your plants remain disease-free. Learn how to understand how different trees change through the seasons and the best way and time to cut them, apply best-practice techniques to different species, and gain expert insight into gardening a variety of plants.

Detailed instructions and illustrations allow novice and amateur-expert gardeners to prune and train their gardens with confidence. Author Christopher Brickel has ensured that this gardening book is an excellent quick reference guide and simple step-by-step instruction manual with illustrations to demonstrate precisely where, how, and when to make those crucial cuts.

About this title

About the Author

Christopher Brickell is Chairman of the International Commission for the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants. He is editor-in-chief of DK's RHS Gardeners' Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers and The RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening. In 1991 he was awarded the CBE for his services to horticulture. Christopher lives in West Sussex. David Joyce is the celebrated author of many specialized books on horticultural techniques and was General Editor of The Chelsea Year.

Review

To prune or not to prune? When to prune? Why prune at all? Just some of the questions this seemingly complex subject raises. But a basic understanding of the reasons behind the methods will reveal an underlying logic: to encourage flowering, fruit, improve the shape or make bushier. The expertise of the Royal Horticultural Society is beyond doubt. On the brink of celebrating its centenary, the Society has promoted horticultural excellence and training since its inception. Written by experts in layman's terms, this is both a visual and written guide to the topic of pruning and training. Lavishly illustrated and clearly captioned, all aspects are covered for every type of plant: trees, shrubs, climbers, fruit trees and roses, from initial pruning at planting to established trees needing shaping or rejuvenation. This is THE definitive guide and a must for every gardener. - Lucy Watson

Edition details

• Publisher: DK
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 024128290X
• ISBN 13: 9780241282908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336