The Art of Creative Pruning: Inventive Ideas for Training and Shaping Trees and Shrubs
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 160469114X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Georgia Peach said Creative and Tortured Pruning. I wanted more hedge trimming pictures, more creative shapes. The pages devoted to this were beautiful and inspiring. But, many pages show pollarded, tortured, topped out trees with narly knuckles and no green leaves. This form of pruning is very unsightly - I just don't get it, but if this is what you want, this is the book for you. The author goes into great detail and shows many examples of extreme pruning. For some it is considered an ar. "Beautiful" according to XXXXXXXXXXXX. Have been a fan of topiaries for a long time. I am impressed with this beautiful book. Lots of inspiration and information, beautifully styled and photographed. If you like shaping and pruning your garden this is the book for you!. Buddy said Happy with it.. This is a good reference book. Have an area(s) in a yard(s) where shrubs and/or hedges lack character and you're not quite sure how to shape them, this book will most likely give you some great ideas.
Picture boxwoods trimmed into whimsical Russian nesting dolls, hedges inscribed with words, and a tree snipped to resemble the toppling tiers of a wedding cake. Drawing on both eastern and western styles, author Jake Hobson moves beyond the traditional lollipops and animals and teaches a wholly new approach to ornamental pruning that appeals to modern sensibilities. Nothing brings a touch of artistry to the garden like ornamental pruning, and a series of deliberate cuts can create landscapes and evoke faraway places. All the practical considerations are here as well, including pruning to improve a view, remedial pruning to fix problems, and pruning fruit trees to increase yield.. These are just a few of the unusual ideas featured in the beautifully photographed pages. All that's needed to recreate the effect in the garden are a sharp pair of pruners, some imagination, and the instruction found in The Art of Creative Pruning
In smoothly flowing, evocative text, Hobson introduces recent approaches to topiary, ranging from an amateur’s gravity-free South Carolina garden to the professionally developed, extraordinary topiary in the French Marqueyssac Garden, captured poetically in the early morning fog. From Booklist *Starred Review* Imaginative pruning and shaping of living plants can create landscapes, evoke far off places and memories, surprise and even shock, with interconnected species resulting not in defined categories but rather