American Horticultural Society Pruning and TrainingThe American Horticultural Society offers this comprehensive and practical guide to the correct pruning and training of more than 800 ornamental plants and fruits. Filled with specially commissioned photographs and detailed with "before and after" illustrations, this book offers all the information any gardener needs to maintain attractive well-pruned and trained trees, shrubs, climbers, roses and fruit. More than 1,500 illustrations. |
Contents
PROJECT EDITOR LOUISE ABBOTT HOW TO USE THIS BOOK | 6 |
ILLUSTRATIONS KAREN COCHRANE | 20 |
ROSES | 299 |
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apples arborist autumn bark basal shoots base buds bush bushy canes central leader central-leader standard clear trunk climbers colder climates congested conifers cool climates coppiced cordon crown cultivars cut back hard damage Deadhead deciduous dense develop dieback disease dormant early spring encourage espalier established plants Established trees evergreen evergreen shrubs feathered tree flowered shoots flowers foliage formative pruning frost fruited shoots fruits garden grafted ground level growing season grown habit hard pruning hedge height horizontal late spring late winter laterals leading shoot leaves main stem mature minimal pruning multistemmed tree old wood older ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS Ornamental Trees pergolas pinch produce pruned back PRUNING Train racemes REDCURRANT renovate replacement respond root rootstock roses season's growth shape shorten sideshoots species specimens spur-pruned stake standard see p.28 subshrubs suckers thin Tip-prune tips topiary TRAINING AND PRUNING trim twiggy twining upright usually vigorous wall trained wires young plants young shoots ZONES