Pruning Made Easy: A Gardener's Visual Guide to When and How to Prune Everything, from Flowers to Trees

by Lewis Hill

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.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Reference

218 pages, Paperback

First published January 2, 1998

Reviews

[John Anderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basic and broad. Mostly illustrations, but well done and a good guide nonetheless.

[Adrienne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great reference guide. Easy to understand. I want to prune everything.

[Launna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super informative in an easy to process format.

[Heymikeburns · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best basic pruning guide I have found. Well worth the money, this images make pruning very clear.

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to read diagrams and descriptions. Now to put it to use :)

[Kami · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my favorite of the ones I glanced at. All the pruning guides were drawings.