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Proper pruning will keep your landscape beautiful and thriving year after year. This authoritative guide includes more than 300 step-by-step illustrations to clearly demonstrate the correct pruning procedures for a variety of trees, shrubs, hedges, vines, and flowers. Lewis Hill offers expert advice on when, how, and why each type of plant should be pruned, safety considerations, and techniques for maintaining your pruning tools. Encouraging you to...
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This classic of art instruction by noted British painted Adrian Hill presents a well-rounded guide to portraying beeches, elms, pines, and many other varieties of trees. The three-part treatment begins with a brief but informative history of tree painting through the ages, highlighted with images by Titian, rubens, Constable, Turner, and other masters. Advancing to a well-illustrated series of guiding principles, the author discusses the cultivation...
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When should you prune a blackberry bush? How much should you remove? What's the difference between pinching and heading back? And how can you be sure that you aren't harming your fragile blossoms? The Pruning Answer Book offers fresh insights to these relevant questions and scores of others. With clear instructions, detailed illustrations, and expert advice, you'll have all the information you need to successfully prune flowering plants, fruit and...
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There are always some exceptions found in the nature. For example, there are a group of plants called 'parasitic plants' which are unable to perform photosynthesis, a characteristic function of majority members of the plant kingdom. These parasitic plants depend on other living plants for their food and nutritional requirements. Parasitic plants that depend totally on other plants for their food and nutritional requirements are known as total parasites...
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La referencia de los profesionales del jardín, una guía en la que encontrará las principales especies de árboles, arbustos, coniferas, rosales, plantas de tierra de brezo, frutales y plantas de clima suave. Consejos para la plantación y el mantenimiento. Toda la información necesaria para tener éxito con todas las especies. Una enciclopedia rica y clara, que describe más de 2000 variedades, ilustrada con más de 1800 fotografías que le ayudarán...
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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment...
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Make the right cut every time and maximize your fruit production-covers over forty varieties of trees from apples to almonds and plums to pomegranates.
While the act of pruning is simple enough, knowing where and when to prune can confound even experienced gardeners. For more than half a century, Robert Sanford Martin's How to Prune Fruit Trees has been the go-to guide for pruners of all levels of expertise. As one reviewer noted, "This book simplifies...
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Do you have an old grapevine that needs training? A forsythia that has become too leggy? Evergreen shrubs that threaten to push through your first-floor windows? Have you just purchased a new home and feel mystified by the pruning chores ahead? If so, help is here in Pruning Trees, Shrubs & Vines.
Pruning is one of the best things you can do for your plants and trees, if it's done the right way. When pruned regularly and properly, your plants stay...
10) Un bonsái ideal
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Réplicas en miniatura de los más célebres árboles de nuestros bosques, los bonsáis no dejan de sorprendernos por su belleza y su aspecto extraño. El cultivo del bonsái es un arte exigente que requiere el aprendizaje de algunas nociones indispensables para lograr la supervivencia y conservación de los ejemplares.
Gracias a este libro podrá aprender todas las técnicas específicas de plantación, injerto, riego, abonado, etc. Además, tendrá...
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Esta obra, ilustrada en color, facilita a los amantes de los cactus y las plantas crasas toda la información necesaria sobre los cuidados que requieren para crecer y desarrollarse en perfectas condiciones (temperatura, iluminación, riego, substrato y abonos más adecuados...). Podrá conocer cuáles son los sistemas de reproducción más convenientes para sus cactus (por semillas, por esquejes, por división de las matas, por hijuelos...), y qué...
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This vintage book contains a complete guide to trees and their management, with information on growing and maintaining a variety of trees in many different situations. Profusely illustrated and full of timeless, practical information, "Tree Culture and Management" will be of considerable utility to modern gardeners and green-fingered readers. Contents include: "A Short History of Gardening", "Timber-Trees", "Trees Which Grow Best in Moist Situations",...
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Extrait : "1. Un arbre est le produit d'une graine. La graine est la partie du fruit qui renferme les éléments de la reproduction d'un nouveau végétal semblable à celui dont elle provient. Elle est constituée de deux parties : 1° l'amande ; 2° les enveloppes qui la recouvrent."
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Help your trees, shrubs, and vines look and yield their best by making the right cut every time. Whether you are hoping for more flowers or fruit, trying to create a dense screen, or struggling to manage out-of-control growth, there is a pruning technique to achieve your goals. Expert gardener Barbara Ellis explains how a plant responds to pruning, how and when to use basic cuts, and what tools to use. Her plant-by-plant guide will give you the confidence...
15) The Propagation and Care of Plants - With Information on Various Methods and Tools for Propagatin
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This is a classic guide to propagating and caring for plants, specially designed for the novice or home gardener. With clear instructions and helpful diagrams, this book walks the budding gardener through every step of propagating and maintaining a wide variety of different plants commonly found in the garden or smallholding. This classic guide is highly recommended for those looking for an accessible introduction to the world gardening, and it would...
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"The first thing to do about starting an orchard is to plan for it," Jacob Biggle, the author of this handy little book, advises. "Put on your thinking-cap, study into the matter, and do not jump in the dark. A slow start is much better than a poor start. Harriet says that an orchard set in the right place, at the right time and of the right varieties, is worth just eleven times more than a hit-or-miss orchard. Where she secured the data for such...
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