The Pruning Specialist: The Essential Guide to Caring for Shrubs, Trees, Climbers, Hedges, Conifers, Roses and Fruit Trees (Specialist Series)

By David Squire

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843306786
• ISBN13: 9781843306788
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: New Holland Pub Ltd
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.3" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Good basic guide to pruning

I thought this was an excellent introduction to pruning and quite comprehensive for its brevity. I liked that it was on the shorter side and was thoughtfully divided into categories, devoting about a page to each type of shrub or tree. I just needed a quick reference to glance at to guide me in pruning my climbing rose and plum tree. As to the previous review's complaints: the book says the most common shape apple trees are pruned is in a bush, which is a tree but shorter. Its easy to infer from the text and pictures that you use the same techniques on a taller tree. In regards to the peach tree pruning, it does give details on training it as an espalier, but it does preface this by saying pruning it as a tree just takes more space and "less exacting pruning." Which again, says to me, prune it like we're about to describe, but just in the shape of a tree, not an espalier. It does neglect citrus trees, but I assume this is because I've read citrus does not generally need or like pruning.