Pruning Made Easy: A gardener's visual guide to when and how to prune everything, from flowers to trees (Storey's Gardening Skills Illustrated) (Paperback)

by Lewis Hill (Author) "One fall day when I was working in the woods, I heard a noise high above me..." (more)
Key Phrases: United States, Getting Started, Pruning Roses

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist
Another volume in Storey's useful Gardening Skills Illustrated series, Hill's book offers techniques on pruning just about everything that grows: ornamental trees and shrubs, shade trees, fruit trees, small fruits (such as grapes and berries), nut trees, evergreens, hedges, vines and groundcovers, garden plants, and houseplants. In a chapter titled "Artistic Pruning," Hill gives instructions on topiary, the art of shaping trees and shrubs into geometric forms, arches, and animals, and on espalier, the art of pruning trees, shrubs, and vines into a variety of shapes. Other tree-shaping techniques covered are pollarding, coppicing, and Japanese-style pruning. To include 300 step-by-step color illustrations. George Cohen --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
The author of Secrets of Plant Propagation returns with this revised edition of his book Pruning Simplified. This edition contains more than 300 step-by-step illustrations.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (January 2, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580170064
• ISBN-13: 978-1580170062
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #18,869 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

  Popular in these categories: (What's this?)

  #1 in	Books > Home & Garden > Gardening & Horticulture > Shade
  #57 in	Books > Home & Garden > Gardening & Horticulture > Techniques

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

110 of 111 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you ever wanted to know about pruning including, January 13, 1998

By	"fimiona" (Spring Green, Wi) - See all my reviews

Although I am a university trained horticulturist and have managed greenhouses, I still can hardly bear to thin my carrots in the garden. Imagine the terror of inheriting a yard full of mature trees strangled by vines, lilacs overgrown and dying in the shade, broken limbs rent from their trunks five years ago still hanging in limbo, waiting for the perfect passerby to drop upon. This book was new on the shelf of the local library and in my estimation one of their best garden acquisitions for the year. Clear, easy to understand copy coaches the pruner to do anything fron improving appearance to rejuvenating old stock,including creating barriers, espalier work,bonsai, shearing Christmas trees and more. An overview of tools and sanitation is offered, and each individual area is discussed in depth. Accompanying pictures are clear and easy to understand. This book is going to be a permanent resident of my private bookshelf.

47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Illustrations make this book, November 23, 2001

By A Customer

This book is second only to the American Horticulture Society book on pruning (which might be too much information for some anyway). The illustrations in this book are superior to other books I've seen on pruning which is why I bought it as a companion to the AHS book. I don't know why other books won't give you a close up view but this one does and I liked that so I bought it. If you want just one book on pruning go ahead and make this the one, you've made a good choice.

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very very helpful book, October 18, 2001

By	Lewis Rose (North Potomac, MD United States) - See all my reviews

If you are like me, your attempts at pruning have largely been hit and miss affairs. Until I bought this book, I sort of guessed about how to prune the flowers and trees in my yard. This book shows you what to do and, just as importantly, what not to do. The chapters are set forth nicely, starting with instructions on why you should prune, the type of equipment you need and then how best to prune. After those three general introductions, the authors provide in-depth instructions, using drawings, about how to prune ornamental trees and shrubs, shade trees, evergreens, hedges, fruit trees, nut trees, vines and ground covers, garden plants, houseplants, and bonsai trees. There is even a chapter on "artistic pruning." And, for each plant type they also tell you when to prune.

A great book that covers what you need to know and then shows you how to do it, visually.