Home Gardener's Pruning
Caring for shrubs, trees, climbers, hedges, conifers, roses and fruit trees
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2016
Summary
In order to be a successful gardener you have to know how to prune—whether to improve growth, increase fruiting qualities or to enable the plant to grow in space-restricted areas or cold environments. This practical book provides advice on pruning garden plants, from infancy to maturity. Included is detailed advice on renovating neglected plants, from shrubs and climbers to fruit trees and bushes. There is also a fun element, with instructions for creating topiary in the garden.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580117739 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1580117732 |
| Author: | David Squire |
| Publisher: | Fox Chapel Publishing |
| Imprint: | Creative Homeowner Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 279mm |
| Series: | Specialist Guide |
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David Squire
David Squire is an experienced gardening writer and editor. Having contributed to numerous gardening magazines he is the author of more than 80 gardening and plant-related books including four titles in the Home Gardener’s Specialist Guide series. David trained as a horticulturist at the Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and at the Royal Horticultural Society, where he was awarded the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He was awarded an N.K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants which, in 2005, was accepted by the Booth Museum of Natural History to become library and museum exhibits. He has a passionate interest in the uses of native plants, whether for eating and survival, or for their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs.
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