PruningThis book is a comprehensive series of gardening guides that combine a practical, step-by-step approach to growing plants successfully, with inspirational ideas for using and displaying them in the garden, on the patio and around the home. |
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INTRODUCTION | 6 |
Pruning deciduous shrubs | 12 |
Climbing habits | 36 |
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APPLES AND PEARS bear flowers bear fruits blackcurrants branches bush Buxus sempervirens canes cherries climbers clusters colour congested conifers cordons create cut them back cutting out dead deciduous deciduous shrubs development of fresh diseases early spring early summer encourage the development ensure espaliers evergreen evergreen shrub fan-trained flowers fade flowers have faded framework fresh shoots frost fruit buds garden ground level growing grown growth hand shears Hedera colchica hedges Hybrid Tea late autumn late spring late summer late winter lateral shoots leading shoot leaves Leyland cypress Ligustrum ovalifolium Lonicera nitida main stem mid-spring mid-summer nectarines old shoots plant's base plants pruning is needed regular pruning remove season secateurs to cut shape sharp secateurs shoots in spring shrubs sideshoots soil Solanum crispum spring and early spurs straggly shoots strong Taxus baccata thin tips topiary trained tree trim trunk types varieties vigorous wall winter or early young shoots