The Pruner's Bible: A Step-by-Step Guide to Pruning Every Plant in Your Garden

I first tried to look up weeping cherry, but found only a general one-page treatment of cherry trees. There was no entry in the index for "apple"! Without knowing the Latin name of a plant, it's hard to find it. The book covers a wide range of plants, but for the same kinds of plants, the same advice is repeated page after page. There's very little that's specific to a particular plant. The book is a very general treatment of pruning, with a few specific tips for certain plants. I was disappointed. This is a good book for a beginner, but it's not a "bible".

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Outstanding and beautiful book. Great instruction with fantastic pictures to help explain and demonstrate. A very useful resource all gardeners should have.

this book will show you the way to prune most anything for the desired result. timing, length and reasoning behind mindful pruning is the difference between clean and beautiful and leggy, miss shaped jungle foliage.

When I found this book at the Master's Gardner's Rutgers University library, I had to have my own copy. couldn't beat the price.

Pedestrian and not really as functional as Cass Turnbull's classic on the same subject.

"The Pruner's Bible" should have a place in every gardener's library. All types of pruning are simplified, well illustrated, and explained. Pruning is often neglected by gardeners simply because they feel too inexperienced or are afraid of seriously harming their plants. This book makes pruning as simple as watering! It also details the timing of pruning different species, so you don't end up generating new growth just prior to the first frost! Buy it, enjoy it, share it.

This is a well thought out book on pruning. It was first lent to me by a friend who is a Master Gardener, and I poo poo'ed it as just another pruning book - and I had plenty. But, in fact, the information is great, well organized, and especially good. I ended up buying my own copy AND one for my daughter!! Definitely a 5 star. NOT 'just another' pruning guide.

This book is excellent for everything you need to know to properly care for (and choose) shrubs for your garden. Good illustrations.

Great info, great book!

good info

Great info , will be using it this spring to clean up the broken shrubs at my customers with my company

Terrific book. Very comprehensive.

Très instructif et très clair.