Pruning and Training, Revised New Edition: What, When, and How to Prune by DK

Featuring more than 800 plants and step-by-step instructions to pruning and training hundreds of trees, shrubs, and climbing plants, this comprehensive guide is freshly redesigned to help cultivate your perfect garden. With chapters on everything from rosebushes to peach trees, Pruning and Training has advice for every garden and gardener. Using a practical A–Z approach, organized by plant type, information is displayed in an easy-to-follow format and annotated illustrations that carefully guides readers on specialized techniques for each plant type, including coppicing and pollarding for trees and pinch pruning for shrubs. Learn the basic training techniques for climbers and see how to maintain ornamental shrubs in your garden, including grasses for your topiary or hedges and bamboo. Train jasmine to climb a wall, learn where to prune a rose, and increase your fruit tree's yield. Pruning and Training is the essential guide to pruning and training your garden plants with confidence.

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From the Publisher Bountiful Blueberries With their white, bell-shaped flowers, succulent blue fruits, and vivid red and orange fall leaf color, blueberries are attractive ornamental as well as productive shrubs. Pinch-Pruning Pinch-pruning is a technique occasionally used on a wide range of plants to produce bushy growth by nipping out soft shoot tips. Miniature Rose Modern roses are available in an ever-broadening range of colors, sizes, and habits. With annual pruning, these tiny bushes maintain a neat and compact shape and will flower all summer long. Ripe Redcurrants Redcurrant bushes need good formative training and regular pruning to prevent weak and congested growth and ensure good quality fruits. Climbing Plants Where plants have been trained straight up pillars to cover the top quickly, lower stems may be bare. Use small shrubs or short or annual climbers to cover the base of each pillar.