Frosty December
As Christmas approaches I re-discover a valuable item of gardening technology and enjoy the many birds now visiting the garden during the short winter days. I also explain how to prune your climbing roses to give them a head start for next season ... [... more]
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Pruning Basics: Tools * Techniques * Timing
 From Amazon.com: Pruning has always seemed like a chore, but after reading Pruning Basics it actually sounds like fun. And not just fun, but an accomplishment. Instead of holding your breath and hacking off dead-looking branches, Pruning Basics teaches [... more]
CDN$18.95
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The Grape Grower: A Guide to Organic Viticulture
The Grape Grower by Lon Rombough: Finding a grape growing book that is not geared toward the conditions in California is a difficult thing to do but this book does just that. You will find information on growing grapes in those conditions for sure but [... more]
CDN$45.50
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Pruning Made Easy: A Gardener's Visual Guide to When and ...
Illustrations make this book: 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 [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Bonsai
Excellent quick reference: This book is essentially the compacted version of Tomlinson's "The Complete Bonsai". The wealth of full color images is just as descrptive (though much smaller), and the text much abridged, but if you are looking for [... more]
CDN$16.67
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A Gardener's Life: The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury
FOR THOSE WHO LOVE GARDENS, NATURE, AND ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL: Leafing the pages of this beautifully wrought gardener's diary is very much like drawing open curtains on a summer morning and finding your room filled with sunlight. The photographs by Derry [... more]
CDN$81.50
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Ortho's All about Pruning
The easy way to being an expert pruner!: This book explains pruning in easy to understand illustrations and pictures. It shows how to prune nearly anything and does it in a way that is easy to understand and easy to remember. Anyone can correctly prune [... more]
CDN$18.95
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The Pruning Specialist: The Essential Guide to Caring ...
Not at all useful: I purchased this book to learn about how to prune my fruit trees. While I have an upright peach, this book tells how to train a peach tree as an espalier. Even those directions were not as good as the ones in The Complete Book of [... more]
CDN$15.95
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How to Prune: Techniques and Tips for Every Plant and Season
Author: John Cushnie Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 631.542 EAN: 9781856267380 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1856267385 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2007-10-01 [... more]
CDN$44.95
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Tomato Frenzy; Caring for Your Crop
If you want to know how to prune, stake, trellis, feed, water, or plant tomatoes, this first part of Tomato Frenzy has the answers (including why you should feed Tums to your tomato plants). Besides teaching gardening courses, I also go to ... [... more]
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Gardening With Confidence
The secret of successful gardening is having the confidence to have a go I recall another acquaintance at horticultural college when we were being given a demonstration of pruning. The lecturer showed us how to prune back some Penstemons and then ... [... more]
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Is It Time To Prune Your Clematis?
Is it time to prune your Clematis? Here's how to tell, and how to prune your Clematis the right way at the right time. A Clematis twining gracefully up the side of a house, or sprawled luxuriously over a fence is a glorious sight. The Clematis is ... [... more]
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