RHS Pruning and Training

What, When, and How to Prune Over 800 Plants

DK, DK, DK

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01 April 2025

Gardening: plants; Specialised gardening methods

A complete guide to everything you need to know when pruning and training your plants with confidence, from the experts at the RHS

Cut with confidence- know when and how to prune your trees and plants with this complete guide from the experts at the RHS.

Keep your garden in top shape with the RHS's guide to pruning over 800 plants, shrubs, fruit bushes, ornamental trees, and climbing plants. Clear artworks and step-by-step photographs guide you through some of the simplest - and also more complicated - approaches to keeping your plants in good order.

Knowing how to prune and shape plants correctly will help you achieve the best displays of flowers, produce bumper crops of fruit, and help your plants remain disease-free. A practical A-Z approach, organised by plant type, displays detailed information in an easy-to-use format, as well as guides for more specialised techniques. Whether pinch or renovation pruning, or pollaring and topiary, this book has it all.

By: DK, DK, DK
Imprint: DK
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 261mm, Width: 198mm,
ISBN: 9780241662076
ISBN 10: 0241662079
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Formerly Director General of the Royal Horticultural Society, Christopher Brickell is an eminent plantsman. In 1976 he was awarded the RHS Victoria Medal of Honour for his services to horticulture, followed by the CBE in 1991. He has published many botanical and horticultural papers and articles and chaired the International Commission for the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants. In 1990 he was editor-in-chief for the first edition of Dorling Kindersley's bestselling RHS Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers (now in its 6th edition and with sales of over three million copies). This was followed by RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening, RHS A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants and RHS Pruning & Training.