Trees & Shrubs: Specialist Guide: Selecting, planting, improving and maintaining trees and shrubs in the garden

by David Squire

Overview

Improve your outdoor space with this detailed guide to selecting, planting, pruning, and renovating every kind of tree and shrub.

No matter what the type of garden or outdoor space, trees and shrubs are usually featured. This is because they are so versatile. Depending on the species chosen, shrubs and trees can form the background to a garden, be a focal point or add height to an overlooked garden. Whatever your garden needs, a tree or shrub can provide it. 

Home Gardener’s Trees & Shrubs details the basics of choosing, buying, planting, establishing, and transplanting. A comprehensive plant directory has A–Z lists of species within different categories: seasons, color, size etc. The final section of the book looks at how to care for shrubs and trees, giving practical advice on how to prune and clip, and the pests, diseases, and other problems to watch out for.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781637411933
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/05/2022
Series:	Home Gardener's
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	45 MB
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About the Author

David Squire has worked for many years as a gardening writer and editor. He has contributed to numerous gardening magazines and is the author (or co-author) of more than 80 gardening and plant-related books. His books include four titles in the new Home Gardener's Specialist Guide series (Fox Chapel Publishing) plus The Scented Garden (Orion) which won the “Quill and Trowel Award” of the Garden Writers of America. David trained as a horticulturist at the Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and at the Royal Horticultural Society, where he was awarded the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He was awarded an N.K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants. In 2005, this collection of plants was accepted by the Booth Museum of Natural History to become library and museum exhibits. He has a passionate interest in the uses of native plants, whether for eating and survival, or for their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs.