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Keeping your garden in good shape has never been easier! Pruning is an essential part of garden maintenance. Its also one of the most difficult parts of gardening. This is your no-fuss guide to learning basic training and pruning techniques. Do you want to know how to prune the shrubs and climbers in your garden but dont know where to start? This gardening book for beginners will help you care for more than 80 of the most popular pruning plants. Whether you need to prune flowering trees or have a small garden that requires controlling, this complete pruning guide explores all the essential techniques. It also features an illustrated directory that answers all your pruning and training questions to help you put your skills into practice. You dont have to be a horticulture expert to get started, this indispensable e-book will take you through every single step! It includes: - Easy gardening tips on how to care for more than 80 shrubs and trees - Packed with practical, jargon-free know-how and simple pruning techniques - Easy-to-follow format to help grow your gardening knowledge Let It Grow! Gorgeous, full-colour photography provides plenty of inspiration and ideas. Expert tips and step-by-step instructions on every page will help you care for your plants the right way. Grow Pruning & Training covers everything you need to know to make pruning fruit trees, shrubs, and climbing plants a simple and achievable process. Its the perfect book for first-time gardeners! Complete the Series: Make your green-fingered dreams a reality with the Grow series from DK. Learn how to brighten up even the trickiest areas in Grow Containers, or discover how to garden more sustainably in Grow Eco-Gardening. Alternatively, there are more titles to explore such as Grow Easy Veg and Grow Houseplants.

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UNDERSTANDING PRUNING AND TRAINING

Before you begin to prune and train your plants, it helps to understand why it is necessary. By following the correct techniques, you can be safe in the knowledge that you are pruning correctly and at the optimum time, and training growth in a way that will encourage it to thrive. Learning to select the correct tools to make clean cuts is also key to producing good results and keeping your plants healthy.

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Many trees and shrubs such as this elder Sambucus benefit from being - photo 4

Many trees and shrubs, such as this elder ( Sambucus ), benefit from being pruned hard each year in order to keep them healthy and their growth vigorous and productive of flowers and fruit.

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WHY PRUNE AND TRAIN?

Many trees, shrubs, and climbers will grow happily when left to their own devices, but pruning and training can be used in a huge variety of ways to influence their appearance and to enhance their ornamental qualities, allowing you to create and maintain a beautiful garden. Careful pruning and training increases the quality and quantity of flowers on many climbers and shrubs, which may then clothe walls and archways with their lush growth. Pruning is also vital to remove diseased or dead stems to keep plants healthy and can even trigger new vigour in tired overgrown specimens.

FOR PLANT HEALTH

Pruning and training can be used throughout a plants life to promote good health and deal with any problems that may arise. Routine pruning to create an open shape, free from congested branches, not only makes a plant more attractive but also helps to prevent disease by improving airflow around the foliage and stopping branches rubbing together in the wind.

Damaged and dead growth provide an easy route for disease to enter a plant, and so are always removed first during pruning. Cutting back to healthy tissue using clean sharp tools halts the spread of any disease already present and allows plants to heal quickly, minimizing the chance of new infections and encouraging strong new growth.

Naturally elegant Japanese maples Acer are pruned only minimally TO SHAPE - photo 5

Naturally elegant Japanese maples ( Acer ) are pruned only minimally.

TO SHAPE PLANTS

Most gardeners regularly trim a hedge to keep it to their desired shape, but other useful pruning and training methods can also be employed to manipulate the growth of garden plants, often to spectacular effect. To achieve the best results, begin pruning when plants are young, so that you can establish the balanced structure of branches at the heart of a specimen tree or shrub, or encourage certain shrubs to develop into lollipop standards. Many flowering and berry-bearing shrubs can also be trained to grow tightly against a wall, which produces a spectacular display and is an excellent way to accommodate large plants in small gardens.

Pruning plants in order to maintain their planned forms is always much easier and more rewarding than trying to tame the growth of vigorous climbers, shrubs, or trees that have outgrown their allotted space.

Train wisteria to maximize the impact of its cascading flowers Grow Pruning - photo 6

Train wisteria to maximize the impact of its cascading flowers.

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Clipped topiary adds formal structure to a garden whatever its size TO BOOST - photo 7

Clipped topiary adds formal structure to a garden, whatever its size.

TO BOOST PERFORMANCE

Plants react to being cut back by producing fresh new growth, so make use of this response to get the best from your plants. Well-timed pruning and careful training can promote flowering, increasing both the quality and quantity of blooms on a single plant, sometimes followed by a brilliant display of decorative berries or hips on fruiting plants in autumn.

Regular pruning or trimming each spring can combat the tendency of some climbers and shrubs to become leggy or bare at the base as they age, encouraging compact bushy growth, which makes an attractive feature when the plants are not in flower.

Severe pruning is also frequently used to renovate a plant that has become overgrown. Removing its tangled old stems stimulates vigorous new growth and can revitalize a tired corner of the garden.

Encourage roses to bloom freely with the appropriate pruning and training - photo 8

Encourage roses to bloom freely with the appropriate pruning and training.

Fluffy seedheads make an attractive feature once clematis flowers have faded - photo 9

Fluffy seedheads make an attractive feature once clematis flowers have faded.

Train climbing hydrangea Hydrangea petiolaris so it covers a shady wall - photo 10

Train climbing hydrangea ( Hydrangea petiolaris ) so it covers a shady wall.

FOR ATTRACTIVE YOUNG GROWTH

The young shoots of some trees and shrubs are valued for decorative qualities that are quite different from those of the mature plants. Specific pruning techniques, known as coppicing or pollarding, involve cutting older growth back hard often every spring to promote vigorous new stems ( see ). These shoots either carry large colourful leaves, such as the circular silvery juvenile foliage of gums ( Eucalyptus ), or boast vividly coloured bark, like the bold reds and oranges of some dogwood ( Cornus ) varieties, which lights up a border in winter. This severe pruning can also be a useful technique for limiting the size of large plants, allowing them to be grown successfully in small gardens.

Coppiced dogwoods Cornus produce a profusion of new fiery growth TOP TIP - photo 11

Coppiced dogwoods ( Cornus ) produce a profusion of new fiery growth.

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