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

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.

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

Over 300 step-by-step illustrations demonstrate the proper techniques for pruning many varieties of plants, trees, shrubs, hedges and vines. This guide includes topiary, bonsai and the creating of espaliers and cordons. It also suggests methods of using and caring for pruning tools and equipment Explains the how, when, and why of pruning; features information about tools, equipment, and methods; and provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions for pruning a variety of trees, shrubs, vines, and flowers One fall day when I was working in the woods, I heard a noise high above me.