Pruning Fruiting Plants: A Practical Gardener's Guide to Pruning and Training Tree Fruit and Soft Fruit, with Over 350 Photographs and Illustrations and Easy-to-follow Advice

Bird, Richard

ISBN 10: 1844762858 / ISBN 13: 9781844762859

Published by Southwater, 2007

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The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR004068186

Bibliographic Details

Title: Pruning Fruiting Plants: A Practical ...

Publisher: Southwater

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis:

This is the definitive practical guide to pruning fruit trees and soft fruit. It is lavishly illustrated with over 350 inspirational and practical colour photographs, as well as over 90 specially commissioned artworks. It includes popular fruits such as apples, pears and raspberries, as well as more unusual species like quinces, figs and cranberries. A useful directory provides essential information about the best varieties of fruit to grow. This practical guide to pruning fruit trees and soft fruit shows how the correct training of trees and shrubs improves both their fruiting capacity and their shape, resulting in more produce and a tidier garden. The first section of the book looks at fruit trees, which can be trained into a variety of shapes, from poles to fans. In the second section of the book, cane fruits such as raspberries and blackberries, and bush fruits such as currants and gooseberries are dealt with. This is the only book on pruning fruiting plants that a gardener will ever need.

About the Author:

Richard Bird has been gardening since childhood and currently maintains a large garden, where his abiding passion for plants is very evident. He has contributed to numerous publications and has been magazine editor for Focus on Plants, The Hardy Plant, Alpine Gardening and the Alpine Garden Society's magazine Bulletin. He is also a full-time author on the subject of gardens and plants and has written nearly 30 books on subjects as diverse as alpines and rock gardens, lilies, perennials, organic gardening and window boxes. He is the author of Beautiful Shrubs and Great Climbers, and The Green-Fingered Gardener: Kitchen Gardens (both by Southwater)..