Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Part 1 The Basics
Chapter 1 Basic Cuts 3
Chapter 2 Selective Pruning Techniques 17
Chapter 3 Suckers and Water Sprouts 23
Chapter 4 Looking For Deadwood 29
Chapter 5 Timing 33
Chapter 6 Pruning Tools 39
Chapter 7 How to Prune Hedges 47
Chapter 8 Principles of Landscape Renovation 53
Chapter 9 The Most Common Design Errors 59
Part 2 The Plants
Chapter 10 Mounding-Habit Shrubs 67
Abelia 68
Boxwood 72
Burning Bush 75
Evergreen Azalea 78
Health/Heather, Lavender, Rockrose, and Broom 83
Juniper 87
Spiraea 91
Three More Mounders: Escallonia, Mexican Orange, and Flowering Quince 93
Chapter 11 Cane-Growing Shrubs 105
Bamboo, Heavenly Bamboo, Kerria, Oregon Grape, and Julian's Barberry 106
Forsythia 112
Hydrangea 120
Hybrid Tea Roses 123
Three More Cane-Growers: Butterfly Bush, Mock Orange, and Red Twig Dogwood 131
Chapter 12 Tree-Like Shrubs 141
Camellia 144
Cotoneaster 147
Deciduous Azalea 153
English Laurel, English Holly, and Photinia 155
Lilac 159
Rhododendron 162
Viburnum x Bodnantense and Beautyberry 172
Witch Hazel, Doublefile Viburnum, and Winter Hazel 175
More Tree-Likes: Pieris and Golden Thread Cypress, Smoke Bush, and Other Stick-Up Plants 181
Chapter 13 Vines 189
Clematis 194
Wisteria 196
Chapter 14 Trees 205
Big Trees 218
Dogwood 230
Fruit Trees 235
Japanese Laceleaf Maple 243
Japanese Maple 247
Magnolia 253
Ornamental Cherry, Crabapple, and Purple-Leaf Plum Trees 257
Weeping Cherry 263
Japanese Pruning of Pines 267
Chapter 15 Ground Covers 273
English Ivy 276
Hypericum 280
Salal 281
Chapter 16 Even More Plants to Prune 283
Aucuba, Fatsia, and Skimmia 284
Ceanothus 286
Daphne 288
Hollywood Juniper 291
Sarcococca and Drooping Leucothoë 294
Strawberry Bush 296
Viburnum Davidii 298
The Whackables: Lavatera, Senecio Greyi, Perovskia, Hardy Fuchsia, and Cape Fuchsia 300
Chapter 17 Three Fruit-Bearers 305
Figs 306
Grapes 309
Raspberries 311
Chapter 18 Taming the Native-Plant Garden 315
Appendix 1 Regional Pruning by Plant Habit 327
Appendix 2 Three Views on Sterilizing Your Tools 335
Index 343
