Product Description

This handy and comprehensive guide contains fully illustrated expert advice on pruning and training every kind of garden plant. Simple but important techniques of controlling, directing, and promoting the healthy and attractive growth of trees, shrubs, and vines are shown in clear detail. Includes step-by-step sequences, pruning diagrams, before-and-after comparisons, and practical tips Pocket-size format with flexible cover makes it ideal for use in the garden. The most baffling aspects of gardening demystified and displayed in absolute clarity.

A lavishly illustrated flexibound, Eyewitness Garden Handbooks are the user-friendly guides that identify every type of garden plant with up to ten salient features, at-a-glance information on height, spread, and color, and useful cultivation symbols. There are also separate sections on gardening skills and a complete index of common names.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #96718 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

Eyewitness Garden Handbooks: Pruning and Training
The Eyewitness Garden Handbooks: Pruning and Training was such a tremendous help to me in developing the beautiful garden I had always wanted. It was able to walk me through the difficult process of espalier techniques that had always been so difficult to grasp from the other books I had read for this involved procedure. The beautiful pictures and easy to understand language made this a book I will use year after year! I would recommend it to everyone!

Not so good.
Didn't find this book very helpful. It's my first pruning book and I hope others are better. It was more of an overview than a 'how to, when to' guide. Even the specific plants it mentions only get a few sentences each.

would be good IF it were larger illustrations - book is too small
If you are ordering this book, then you want it because of the information in the illustrations.This is a gardening book, and you need to see where to prune, and how to make the cuts, and so on. Usually the books in the Eyewitness series speak for themselves: they usually have clear and colorful, well marked illustrations, and the typeface is clearly laid out. These illustrations look nice, but the book has been miniaturized to half the size that it should be. i would need a magnifying glass to see where the small red pruning marks are, and what to cut and what not to cut. The text is quite tiny. The book simply needs to be larger to be more useful. This is a reference book, not a novel. it is approximately 5" x 7".