Pruning Made Easy: A Gardener's Visual Guide to When and How to Prune Everything, from Flowers to Trees (Storey's Gardening Skills Illustrated)

Hill, Lewis

ISBN 10: 1580170072 / ISBN 13: 9781580170079

Published by Storey Publishing, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pruning Made Easy: A Gardener's Visual Guide to When and How to Prune Everything, from Flowers to Trees (Storey's Gardening Skills Illustrated)
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580170072
• ISBN 13: 9781580170079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Sears, Elayne
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Proper pruning will keep your landscape beautiful and thriving year after year. This authoritative guide includes more than 300 step-by-step illustrations to clearly demonstrate the correct pruning procedures for a variety of trees, shrubs, hedges, vines, and flowers. Lewis Hill offers expert advice on when, how, and why each type of plant should be pruned, safety considerations, and techniques for maintaining your pruning tools. Encouraging you to get creative, Hill even shows you how to shape your own topiaries and train espaliers.

About the Author

The late Lewis Hill, a beloved and best-selling Storey author, grew more than 20,000 trees on his farm in Greensboro, Vermont. He was also a member of the National Christmas Tree Association and the New Hampshire-Vermont Christmas Tree Association.