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How to Prune Books
If you are a serious pruner, or a weekend pruning warrior these books will help guide you to better pruning care of your precious plants.
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American Horticultural Society Pruning & Training
Christopher Brickell
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- Another book on pruning this one more detailed than the previous book.
From Amazon.com: 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
An Illustrated Guide to Pruning
Book Description: This book provides guidelines for developing and maintaining sound architectural trunk and branch structure. It is written around the drawings and photographs to serve as the the main teaching tool for students to learn by acutally pruning. The concepts presented in the drawings will provide enough information to allow you to begin pruning trees quickly, correctly and more efficiently. A must for anyone who works with trees and shrubs.
Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning: What, When, Where, and How to Prune for a More Beautiful Garden
Book Description The Northwest Pruning Guide provides step-by-step instructions for pruning trees, shrubs, and other plants to help them flourish in any garden or lawn. It profiles the most common types of plants found in Northwest gardens, including evergreen and deciduous shrubs, bamboos and tea roses, camellia, hedge plants, wisteria, and trees. Each entry also covers common gardening mistakes, traditional methods, proper positions, tips on the best times to prune, and more.
Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning: What, When, Where, and How to Prune for a More Beautiful Garden
Book Description The Northwest Pruning Guide provides step-by-step instructions for pruning trees, shrubs, and other plants to help them flourish in any garden or lawn. It profiles the most common types of plants found in Northwest gardens, including evergreen and deciduous shrubs, bamboos and tea roses, camellia, hedge plants, wisteria, and trees. Each entry also covers common gardening mistakes, traditional methods, proper positions, tips on the best times to prune, and more.
Niwaki: Pruning, Training and Shaping Japanese Garden Trees
Book Description: 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.
The Pruner's Bible : A Step-by-Step Guide to Pruning Every Plant in Your Garden
Book Description: Learn how to prune more than 80 popular plants to get the best display of flowers, foliage, colorful stems, and fruits.
Pruning is probably the area of gardening that causes the most anxiety to the average gardener. Many books add to that anxiety with illustrations that show completely different plants from those in the reader's own garden, or directions that use complex terms without explaining them. In contrast, this plant-by-plant guide demonstrates the correct pruning technique for 80 of the most widely planted trees and shrubs, with photographs and instructions that are so clear they will inspire confidence in even the novice gardener. Read The Pruner's Bible to discover:
Basic rights and wrongs about making cuts-with information clearly photographed in step-by-step sequence.
What tools to buy and how to look after them-and how to choose the right tool for each job.
What to do with the prunings-the pros and cons of shredding, burning, bagging, and composting.
How to select young trees and shrubs that will grow into well-shaped specimens-with little or no pruning required.
Covering shrubs, climbers, roses, and ornamental and fruit trees, with separate sections on hedges, topiary, and special techniques, this outstanding guide will remain a bible of pruning for years to come.
Pruning Made Easy: A Gardener's Visual Guide to When and How to Prune Everything, from Flowers to Trees
Lewis Hill
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- Illustrations that show you exactly how to prune. If you are tired of your hackjob when you prune and want to prune properly and at the right time this is the book for you. Simple and easy to follow guides for the novice pruner or hacker (like me).
From the Back Cover: 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
The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs
Book Description: How, when and where to prune? The questions that beset every gardener never change but the solutions do. The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers has always recommended the best possible pruning techniques and practice to gardeners and now, thoroughly revised and substantially expanded by Tony Kirkham, George Brown’s classic work will continue to be trusted and respected as the essential pruning reference for years to come.
Since George Brown first wrote this book in 1972 there have been major advances in the science of arboriculture. The move to target pruning was fundamental and Kirkham clearly explains the reason behind the technique as well as how to apply it. He gives reasons for the now restricted use of wound sealants or tree paints and provides a comprehensive list of current pests and diseases and how to combat them through pruning methods. The nomenclature throughout the book has been fully updated and the section on pruning for wildlife expanded. The appendix on tools and the glossary have been extensively revised.
The book opens by setting out the general principles of pruning but its cornerstone is a unique encyclopedia detailing the best pruning methods for more than 450 genera of trees, shrubs, conifers and woody climbers. Many new plants have been added to fully reflect the wider range now available to gardeners and the extensive A–Z now covers several thousand species.
With more than 50 new photographs illustrating key pruning points, this manageable, easy-to-use reference is more practical than ever. The distillation of decades of experience, The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers will continue to support, advise and inspire all who care for woody plants – both professionals and amateurs – well into the twenty-first century.
The Pruning Specialist : The Essential Guide to Caring for Shrubs, Trees, Climbers, Hedges, Conifers, Roses and Fruit Trees
Book Description: Beautifully illustrated and encyclopedic in scope, this is the only guide you’ll ever need to become a pruning expert. It includes a vast wealth of information on trimming all types of plant life, from shrubs, trees, climbers and hedges to conifers, roses and fruit-bearing vegetation. You’ll also benefit from the special sections on working with arches, tunnels and topiary.
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