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Pruning Made Easy: A Gardener's Visual Guide to When and How to Prune
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Pruning Made Easy: A Gardener's Visual Guide to When and How to Prune Everything, from Flowers to Trees Paperback - 1998

by Lewis Hill

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Trusted nurseryman and author Lewis Hill helps readers overcome their fears with one of the most authoritative and complete pruning manuals available. Hill outlines the many reasons for pruning and explains the different methods used for each purpose. Over 300 two-color illustrations.

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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.

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One fall day when I was working in the woods, I heard a noise high above me.

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Are You Petrified of Pruning?

Pruning is one of the best things you can do for your plants, if it's done the right way. Now renowned nurseryman and author Lewis Hill shows you how to shear without fear in Pruning Made Easy. More than 300 step-by-step illustrations demonstrate the proper techniques for pruning many varieties of plants, including trees, shrubs, bushes, hedges, vines, and flowers.

With Pruning Made Easy you will learn:

* Exactly when, how, and why various plants should be pruned

* Artistic pruning techniques used to make topiary, espalier, and cordons

* Methods of using and caring for pruning tools and equipment

* How to prune safely

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  • Title Pruning Made Easy: A Gardener's Visual Guide to When and How to Prune Everything, from Flowers to Trees
  • Author Lewis Hill
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Storey Publishing, North Adams, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1998-01-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781580170062 / 1580170064
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 11 x 8.44 x 0.54 in (27.94 x 21.44 x 1.37 cm)
  • Category Gardening / Horticulture
  • Library of Congress subjects Pruning
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97032223
  • Dewey Decimal Code 635.954

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  • Booklist, 01/01/1998, Page 758
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