American Horticultural Society Pruning & Training (American Horticultural Society Practical Guides)

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American Horticultural Society Pruning & Training (American Horticultural Society Practical Guides)

I use it all the time.

Much more than academic

American Horticultural Society Pruning & Training (American Horticultural Society Practical Guides)
David Joyce , and Christopher Brickell
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
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ASIN: 1564583317

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Although primarily a reference text, Pruning & Training is also a stroll through an arboretum, intertwining beautiful and descriptive photographs with explanatory text. If you've ever wondered how a tree, shrub, or vine was trained or formed, this book will explain every how-to for every plant that stirs your experimental side. If you're saddled with an overgrown orchard, poorly maintained landscaping, or heavy frost damage to trees and shrubs, you can renovate them through pruning. Solid background material is provided, including growing habits (and how to take advantage of them), advice on pruning tools, and basic and specialized pruning techniques.

The reference is organized by ornamental trees, fruiting trees, ornamental shrubs, soft fruits, climbing plants, and roses. Each section discusses specialized methods for the subject plant type and includes a plant-by-plant dictionary. With the American Horticultural Society's stamp of approval, you can be sure that Pruning & Training does not neglect pollarding, coppicing, and pleaching. Step by step photographic sequences and before and after shots provide invaluable visual clues. Drawings showing pruning locations frequently feature a silhouette that illustrates the end result of the pruning method. If you'd like to try your hand at espalier or topiary, many training methods are also addressed at length. This is no guide for the casual pruner, but if you want a reference to answer any question you will ever have about the subject, you've found your book. --Molly McElroy

Book Description

Filled with brilliant before-and-after photography, it provides gardeners with complete information on how to create the garden of their dreams.

Customer Reviews:

Informative.......2007-07-08

This book is perfect for someone who wants to understand why pruning techiniques are used and how to get the most out of them. I purchased it so I could predict how my plants would react to what I did to them.

Great help!.......2007-05-12

It provided great help in managing our fruit trees and in helping decide how to take care of future projects!

American Horticultural Society Pruning & Training (American Horticultural Society Practical Guides).......2007-04-03

Excellent reference and fabulous illustrations. Great book to own!!

I use it all the time........2007-03-16

I purchased this book just over a year ago and use it all the time for pruning things like roses, trees, shrubs... pretty much everything.

Lots of great pictures and visual aids help to explain the various pruning techniques.

Got a garden -- get this book.

Much more than academic .......2007-02-21

I have been pruning trees for 30 years (wow), and this is definately the best single source for technical information, and ideas, but it's especially good for its depth & breadth of coverage: a great variety of tree/vine/rose specimens and treatments. The drawings, pictures, sketches are the best I've seen in one presentation. These guys have done it right -- a first class book for the serious gardener!

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques

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Very helpful
Well worth having
A wonderful book I refer to it constantly
Garden lover's delight
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques
Tracy DiSabato-Aust
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ASIN: 0881928038

Book Description

With more than 130,000 copies sold since its original publication, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has proven itself to be one of the most useful tools a gardener can have. Now, in this expanded edition, there's even more to learn from and enjoy. This is the first, and still the most thorough, book to detail essential practices of perennial care such as deadheading, pinching, cutting back, thinning, disbudding, and deadleafing, all of which are thoroughly explained and illustrated. More than 200 new color photographs have been added to this revised edition, showing perennials in various border situations and providing images for each of the entries in the A-to-Z encyclopedia of important perennial species. In addition, there is a new 32-page journal section, in which you can enter details, notes, and observations about the requirements and performance of perennials in your own garden. Thousands of readers have commented that The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is one of the most useful and frequently consulted books in their gardening libraries. This new, expanded edition promises to be an even more effective ally in your quest to create a beautiful, healthy, well-maintained perennial garden.

Customer Reviews:

Very helpful.......2007-10-05

I have only had this a few weeks but already have referred to it many times. It gives very practical information in a forthright manner. Definitely a great addition to my gardening library.

Well worth having.......2007-10-01

Tracy's use of the latin name as opposed to the common name is a little un-nerving for a begginer- like me - but it is one way to drum it into you so that when you go to the nursery you will find what you truly want... plus the detail to specific plants is amazing. Appendix C is worth the price of the book alone...

A wonderful book I refer to it constantly.......2007-09-30

I bought this book for my Mother-in-law and she wrote 'The information is set out in a concise format which is easily referenced. It is packed with information to help you get the most from your perennials. It is a wonderful book and I refer to it constantly.'

Garden lover's delight.......2007-09-07

I love this book! It is as beautiful as it is informational. It is delightful to read to the work of a master who can convey her heart as well as her technical skills. I am pleased to add it to my gardening book treasures.

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques.......2007-09-07

I really like this book. It is very informative and was what I was looking for.

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Just what we needed
The Best Pruning Book Around
terrific pruning manual
Excellent Manual
Pleased on Pruning

Illustrated Guide to Pruning
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Illustrated Guide to Pruning, 2nd Edition details why trees need pruning and presents the protocol for how to do it. This thoroughly updated second edition helps the reader manage trees in a more sustainable manner and provides numerous illustrations and concepts to help prevent future problems in young and medium-aged trees. From one-year-old liners to mature trees in the landscape, the Illustrated Guide to Pruning, 2nd Edition, teaches which live branches to remove to formulate sustainable trunk and branch structure.

Customer Reviews:

Just what we needed.......2007-04-01

This book was just what we needed to be able to show our nursery employees the PROPER way (not just they way they thought it shoud be done) to prune our newly planted trees. The illustrations really help, also. I am going to make this text part of our orientation process for new hires.

The Best Pruning Book Around.......2007-02-16

You won't find a better pruning book than this one. A must have for any arborist or tree person's library.

terrific pruning manual.......2007-02-16

This book seems to be written as a classroom instruction manual. As such, it is very comprehensive. I've got several pruning books, but this one is by far the best at providing instruction you can really go out and implement in your yard.

Excellent Manual.......2007-01-16

I have learned alot from this book, good illustrations, excellent for the lay person and very thorough.

Pleased on Pruning.......2007-01-11

i am very pleased to have purchased "An Illustrated Guide To Pruning". The book was written with very descriptive language that easily explains the correct way, time and type of pruning to perform. The text also explains common incorrect pruning methods which i found to be very beneficial. Equally as helpful are the countless drawings and actual photographs of pruning done correctly and incorrectly. Lastly, the end of chapter quizzes are an excellent idea and are easily used as quick refreshers.

Pruning Made Easy: A gardener's visual guide to when and how to prune everything, from flowers to trees (Storey's Gardening Skills Illustrated)

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Pruning Made Easy
Pictures are worth one thousand words!
PRUNING
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Pruning Made Easy: A gardener's visual guide to when and how to prune everything, from flowers to trees (Storey's Gardening Skills Illustrated)
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The author of Secrets of Plant Propagation returns with this revised edition of his book Pruning Simplified. This edition contains more than 300 step-by-step illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

Pruning Made Easy.......2007-09-29

An excellent guide for pruning everything in the garden. Diagrams are clear and easy to follow. After looking at more that 20 books on pruning, Pruning Made Easy was my choice and I am very satisfied.

Pictures are worth one thousand words!.......2007-02-27

I like this book so much - this is the third copy I have purchased this year! (I keep giving my copy away to family members who desperately need it.) The black line drawings are what keep bring me back to this one book for all of our pruning needs. We have berry bushes (some wild and some we planted ourselves), flowering shrubs, fruit trees, a bonzi tree, a dogwood, grape vines, 3 old Oaks trees and 2 young Walnut trees. This ONE BOOK has helped us to care for each of them according to their needs and age. It has helped turn my brown thumb into green.

PRUNING.......2007-01-09

This book was very helpful for the gardener with lots of trees and shrubs

Highly Recommended.......2006-09-03

If you're looking for a good basic book on pruning this is it. I purchased the Ortho book on Pruning and it was a terribe. I went to the library and rented several books on pruning and this was by far the best.

O.K.......2004-12-15

I was somewhat disappointed when this book came. I was expecting a detailed description on pruning individual types of trees. For example, I wanted a book that I could look crepe myrtle up in the index go to that page and have a detailed description on how and when to prune. Crepe Myrtle is not even in the index. I am going to buy the Southern Living Gardening book now.

Niwaki: Pruning, Training and Shaping Japanese Garden Trees

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Niwaki
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Niwaki: Pruning, Training and Shaping Japanese Garden Trees
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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.

Customer Reviews:

Niwaki.......2007-08-31

I have a very nice Japanese maple and a few other ornamentals and have been looking for a book that describes ways to prune to achieve alternative desirable effects. I have some excellent books on pruning of trees and shrubs, but this one is clearly different from the pack, and very good as well. If you are looking for guidance on how to achieve the look and feel of Japanese ornamentals, this book is the one you need.

Better than expected........2007-07-23

This book is a must have for the Japanese garden enthusiast. Books about pruning and training trees for the Japanese garden are hard to find. Thanks to the Jake Hobson for writing this excellent book.

Finally!.......2007-06-10

Very good book for those of us who love our Japanese gardens and want to incoporate Niwaki techniques. Highly recommended book to add to your collection of books on Japanese gardens and their care. There's not another one like it on the market today.

I love that the author is a sculptor and realized that his art could be translated into a living form of trees.

The Complete Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs: Descriptions, Cultivation Requirements, Pruning, Planting

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The Complete Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs gives comprehensive descriptions to satisfy any arborist. Focusing on vegetation that is extraordinary for its adaptational ability, wild beauty, or unique evolutionary position, this is an excellent resource. The book is divided into three sections: trees and shrubs looked at in general terms; arranged in alphabetical order according to genus; and then depicted in numerous color illustrations, showing leaf and flower shapes, growth habits, and structures. Over 1400 photographs are featured.

Customer Reviews:

Very Good Reference Material.......2006-12-04

I'm a landscape contractor and have a lot of material available to me and have somewhat of a small library of encyclopedias, reference how-to books, etc. Ordered this book not knowing if I would get just another repeat of what I already have. This is one book I will return to quite often. Towards the front of the book will outline how the book works. The index in back is alphabetized with Latin nomenclature. Some common names are included too. If you want to look up Maples, you will find it under Maple, but will refer you to Acer and page #. Each genus entry gives you some info about the species over all and some 'cultivation'. Then gives you more specifics about each species/ variety alphabetically. First the Latin name then common name. Then includes range, size of the tree or shrub, characteristics, subspecies info, and zone tolerance ranges. There are a lot of very good photos that accompany each entry as well. Now, this is not 'Complete' in that it lists every tree/ shrub out there. That's unrealistic in any volume. But it is a very outstanding and 'Complete' in what it does cover - and it covers alot. I would recommend this encyclopedia be included in your library of reference material.

trees and shrub encyclopedia.......2005-06-15

i have found this bood to be an excellent resource for all types of trees and shrubs. it has both common and scientific plant names and is loaded with pictures and comprehensive descriptions. the cultivation tips have been very useful and i would highly recommend this book to anyone!

Trees and Shrubs.......2004-12-02

The book has great pictures and covers any plant you could ever think of but is lacking in its content. Do the math, 8,500 trees and shrubs covered in 815 pages. That does not leave much room for a complete description. It is a very attractive book to look at, but is not for the serious landscaper or nurserymen.

great help.......2003-07-12

The Complete Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs: Descriptions, Cultivation Requirements, Pruning, Planting
by Ernie Wasson (Editor), Eric Wasson is a great book for all fields involving trees shrubs and cultivation. It has opened a world of interesting plants I had never before seen. I recommend it to all enlightented lovers of nature!!!!!!!!

Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting & Pruning Techniques

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Useful stuff
Not your average gardening book
Excellent, practical advice for novices and more
Great for the non-professional
excellent explanations

Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting & Pruning Techniques
Tracy DiSabato-Aust
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Timber Press's all-time bestseller! Tracy DiSabato-Aust has devoted years of study to creating showplace gardens with minimal maintenance. Her methods of pruning and shaping perennials, thoroughly explained and illustrated here, produce more flowers, encourage lush new growth, discourage pests, stagger bloom times, and maintain vigorous health. Readers have given us rave reviews of this book since publication.

Customer Reviews:

Useful stuff.......2006-11-04

Most garden books concentrate on flower type, color, pairing or such. This book gets you into the day to day maintance such as pinching, dead heading and pruning in a stright forward manner. By following these guides a gardener will end up with much fuller longer lasting flowers. If done with perenials the pinched tops can be just stuck in the ground in a shady spot and have new plans even if 75% do not start.
HLM

Not your average gardening book.......2006-03-21

This is not another book of pretty pictures of flowers. The book takes you from start (preparing the soil), to caring for your plants (pruning tips), to finish (dividing mature plants).

Excellent, practical advice for novices and more.......2005-10-24

I've been gardening for 4 years and I learned a few really useful things from Tracy's book; enough to keep it on my list of "most wanted" gardening books. There is a great deal of information on preparing beds, soil amendment, planting and some creative pruning ideas. I think of this book the same way I think of Jaques Pepin's "La Technique" when it comes to cooking. It's a basic, a classic, and it should be on your shelf, or better yet in front of you.

Great for the non-professional.......2005-10-10

This is a book that I give to all my new perennial clients. It is well written and easy to understand.Tracy cuts my extra
phones calls down to a minimum. She gives easy care instructions with optional more in depth instructions for general propogation. Highly recommend it for the perennial gardener.

excellent explanations.......2005-09-13

This book as been invaluable in caring for my first perennial garden. She doesn't just tell you what to do she actually explains what each task means/is/how it is done. The only thing truly lacking that i find myself wishing for every time I go through the book is more on design. The pictures are great but there is often not a listing of all the plants or a corresponding lay-out so I can use them for help in future planning. A key element for her to have left out I think. Maybe I will find another book with more on that aspect.

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A Gem
The Pruning Book
"The (fun) Pruning Book"

The Pruning Book
Lee Reich
Manufacturer: Taunton
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Release Date: 1999-03-01

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It is unlikely that the basics of pruning have ever before been assembled so thoroughly or comprehensively than in Lee Reich's The Pruning Book. With clear prose and generous diagrams and photographs, he takes the angst out of pruning for the beginning or experienced gardener. Included are all the basics presented in a step-by-step, friendly way to guide the reader through the pruning of ornamental bushes, evergreens, vines, trees, houseplants, and plants of almost every conceivable variety. Along with the information on basic pruning, he also covers the use, care, and maintenance of pruning tools. A large section of the book is devoted to specialized pruning techniques, such as pollarding, topiary, bonsai, and espalier. Proper pruning can produce enhanced growth, higher food production in food plants, more lavish blooms in flowering plants, healthier plant life, and visionary garden creations through artistic techniques. Reich has provided everything the reader needs to understand the skill and art of pruning for spectacular results in the garden. --Mark A. Hetts

Book Description

Every gardener knows that pruning makes plants healthier, more fruitful, and more beautiful. But most gardeners wince at the thought of pruning. In The Pruning Book, master horticulturist Lee Reich provides a remedy for "fear of pruning," making this dreaded task almost fun. In easy-to-read, engaging language, Reich gives specific methods for pruning hundreds of species from the cold climates to the tropics. He covers every type of plant, from ornamental bushes, evergreens, ornamental vines, and edible fruit and nut trees to houseplants. For those with special pruning interests Reich also gives time-tested advice for bonsai, topiary, espalier, and pleaching. He even takes a fresh look at such routine chores as mowing a lawn, including his own strategy for creating "lawn nouveau." With this witty and useful reference, any gardener can learn to like pruning.

Customer Reviews:

A Gem.......2007-07-19

Lee Reich is one of the more underrated garden writers today. His books are not pretty or decorative, but the amount that one can learn from them is much much more than than what you get from Martha Stewart or P. Allen Smith any day. Here's to more great work from him.

The Pruning Book.......2007-01-09

I am still currently reading the book. It's packed full of good things. The best thing about it is, if you have a specific type of plant you can go directly to that section and it gives you a clear and detailed way of pruning the plant. I think its a must have for any gardener.

"The (fun) Pruning Book".......2000-12-31

Not only is The Pruning Book useful for our North Temperate Zone climate, but it is a joy to read. Of course, we all know that before pruning comes planting, which subject the author touches-on in his chapter on fruits and nuts.

I feel it's important to note that Author Lee Reich holds a doctorate in horticulture with an extensive background in pruning research. With regard to pruning trees, he emphasizes the fact that slow does it -- over a period of several years for both young and old. Regarding plants that can be intensively pruned, Lee points out how to exploit to our advantage the tendency of many woody plants to sprout prolifically. Such plants include hedges, topiary, standards, fruit etc.. Yet, he warns us against the heavy pruning of health-compromised woody plants. Dr. Reich, as well, underscores the fact that proper pruning includes an emphasis on minimalist pruning.

Lee hopes that we have properly sited our major woody plants -- planted the right tree in the right place, so to speak. He, nevertheless, also deals with those fun 'though labor intensive pruning forms -- pollarding and pleaching. Lee lists a number of fast-growing deciduous trees that "take" to pollarding as well as listing some trees with strong, flexible branches for pleaching. This is not a serious book of lists, just a productive attempt at teaching us how to form our own lists.

Good advice abounds throughout including apropos diagrams and photos. Plant specific advice is often augmented by easy to read tables in many of the categories of pruning that he discusses. Lee even covers something we forget to include in the subject of pruning -- mowing. And, necessarily, he does justice to the different pruning needs of the various maturational stages of our woodies. This includes training of the young plant as well as maintenance of the mature, and the finer points of renovation of the old and neglected.

Lee's advice includes the "why," not just the "how" that most pruning books concentrate upon. He makes the often dry subject of pruning easy to swallow with a spoon full of all sorts of interesting and helpful information... I bet you didn't know that Japanese wisteria twines clockwise while the Chinese species climbs counterclockwise. I'll leave you with a final observation on the latter. After seeing numerous structures literally torn apart by wisteria, I'm going to plant it as a tree -- per a commonly used method suggested by the author.

Customer Reviews:

Reference pays for itself and is a joy!.......2001-04-13

This book may seem an extravagance, especially if you have the wonderful "The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques" (1998), by Tracy DiSabato-Aust, but it is the perfect reference that pays for itself over the years. In contrast to the plant list in the DiSabato-Aust book, this book has full color pix of all plants (perennials & shrubs). The index is useful!

It teaches you to recognize specific plant forms to which you apply the 9 pruning techniques that cover all bases. This book makes it simple to prune any plant, and the other book will tell you that almost all plants benefit from pruning.

As an example, red-twig (or yellow-twig) dogwood should be pruned by completely taking out the oldest 1/3 of branches each year in late winter. This keeps color strong and the bush uncrowded.

Lavender should have 1/3 of last year's new growth pruned off at end of winter, and you have to start this when the plant is young. (I didn't, and you can kill it by cutting back to hard wood.)

It also tells you the difference among all the types of roses (critical, because some bloom on second-year wood) in a 6-pg section copiously illustrated.

I expect that the new version deals with new plants, but have not seen it.

Ortho's All About Pruning (Ortho's All About Gardening)
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Ortho Pruning Great Information

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Comprehensive introduction

Just what I was looking for

The easy way to being an expert pruner!

Ortho's All About Pruning (Ortho's All About Gardening)
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Home Gardener's Problem Solver: Symptoms and Solutions for More Than 1,500 Garden Pests and Plant Ailments (Ortho Home Gardener's Problem Solver)

ASIN: 0897214293
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A primer on trimming trees, shrubs, and vines.

Teaches readers when and how to prune to promote flowering, slow plant growth, and repair damage.

Tips on enhancing plant shape.

Explains different techniques and timing for pruning deciduous trees, evergreens, shrubs, and vines.

Walks readers through the steps of pruning hedges and creating specialty shapes.

Comprehensive encyclopedia provides detailed pruning instructions for 180 trees, shrubs, and vines.

Customer Reviews:

Ortho Pruning Great Information.......2007-01-07

I bought this book for myself and my neighbor say it and loved it so much I purchased one for him, also. If you know nothing about pruning this book will get you started.

Very Disappointed in this book.......2006-09-03

I was surprised to see everyone liked this book. I purchased this book and it was terrible so I went to my local library and rented several books on pruning. One of the books, "Pruning Made Easy" by Lewis Hills is far superior to all the others for a basic pruning book. The Ortho book talked about a subject or would mention a term that they already expected you to know. The book by Hill is basic but indepth.

Comprehensive introduction.......2006-08-30

I don't know if this book is for those who are experienced gardeners, but it was a great comprehensive introduction for this novice.

Just what I was looking for.......2002-05-28

I've been looking for a good pruning book for three years and have been disappointed with all of them. This is the first book that actually explains ALL aspects of the why and how to prune with just the right amount of technical detail. The encyclopedia section lists each tree/shrub with a picture and does something that no other book I've found does, it tells you when to prune EACH tree instead of just providing some broad generic statements like so many other books. If you need to prune anything in your yard, get this book.

The easy way to being an expert pruner!.......2001-07-16

This book explains pruning in easy to understand illustrations and pictures. It shows how to prune nearly anything and does it in a way that is easy to understand and easy to remember. Anyone can correctly prune their shrubs, vines, and trees by following this book. A good index makes it easy to find a specific plant that needs pruning.

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