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SHRUB sa ABELIA sa ARONIA sa ARTEMISIA sa AZALEA sa BERBERIS sa BONSAI sa BUDDLEIA sa CALLICARPA sa CAMELLIA sa CARYOPTERIS sa CEANOTHUS sa CELOSIA sa CLETHRA sa COTINUS sa COTONEASTER sa CYRILLA sa DAPHNE sa DEUTZIA sa ELDER sa ESPALIER sa EVERGREEN sa FORSYTHIA sa FOUQUIERIA sa FREMONTODENDRON sa HAMAMELIS sa HEATH & HEATHER sa HEDGE sa HIBISCUS sa HOLLY sa HORSE-CHESTNUT sa HYDRANGEA sa INDIGOFERA (INDIGO) sa JUNIPER sa KALMIA sa LAGERSTROEMIA sa LESPEDEZA sa LILAC sa LIPPIA sa LONICERA sa MAGNOLIA sa MAHONIA sa MICHELIA sa MYRICA sa MYRTUS (MYRTLE) sa OLEANDER sa OSMANTHUS sa PIERIS sa PLECTRANTHUS sa RHODODENDRON sa RHUS sa SANTOLINA sa SOLANUM sa THUJA & THUJOPSIS sa TOYON sa TREE sa VIBURNUM sa ZENOBIA x BUSH xx HEDGE xx PLANT xx TREE Six pages on how to make the most of roses and shrubs in your home landscape. A look at trees and shrubs that require a minimum of care. Includes zone charts for hardiness. A chart of drought-resistant shrubs that can be used in a variety of situations. Plant a fragrance garden. Suggestions on flowers, herbs and shrubs that add fragrance to the yard. Tips on planting shrubs in the fall. Landscaping with flowering shrubs. A guide to dependable bloomers. Easy-care flowering shrubs and vines. Includes photos and a pruning guide. Fall gardening tips include transplanting trees and shrubs, exposed root planting, planting bulbs for spring flowers, and protecting evergreens from winter damage. Tips on pruning shrubs and hedges. Pruning guide for trees and shrubs. How to start trees and shrubs from seed. How to cut spring-flowering trees and shrubs and force them to bloom indoors. A list of trees and shrubs that are useful to birds for food and cover. How to plant a tree or shrub. Twelve ways to protect your plants against winter. Tips for trees, shrubs, and perennials. Tip on using a rope and stake to pull bushes away from the house to make room for a ladder, etc. Proper pruning for deciduous trees and shrubs. How to use layering to propogate new shrubs from an existing one. Tip shows how to rejuvenate overgrown shrubs. Techniques of etiolation and banding as means of rooting shade trees and shrubs that are often difficult to propagate. A backyard border design based on California's coastal-scrub habitat. Includes tips on planting techniques. Dividing suckering shrubs. Techniques for quick propagation with a shovel and shears. Includes a chart of 21 easily divided shrubs. Moving a small shrub. Tips for first-time transplanters. Unshearing shrubs. Selective pruning of shrubs restores the natural open canopy of shrubs that have been improperly sheared. A better way to plant shrubs and trees. Technique is based on digging a wide, shallow planting hole and avoiding soil amendments. Advice on leaving snow on bent tree or shrub branches. How to propagate flowering shrubs and trees from cuttings. Advice on ground covers or low shrubs appropriate for dry shade. Pruning shrubs. Two basic cuts to control shape and growth. How to shop for shrubs and trees. A buyer's guide to picking healthy plants. Soil drainage. What's soggy, what's not, and what to do about it. Includes a list of native shrubs and trees for moist soils. Pruning for a view. Learning to prune up to one-third of a shrub or tree each year in order to maintain its size and shape. Buying bare-root. How to check for signs of life in a dormant tree or shrub. Shrubs for the sunny perennial border. Selecting and raising woody plants which will add form and structure. Juneberries for beauty and bounty. Cultivating a long-lived shrub for early flowers and tasty berries. Bare branches, bright colors. Enhance the beauty of woody plants grown for their colorful bark with an annual late winter/early spring pruning. Advice on selection and pruning. Scented shrubs for all seasons. Using fragrance as a garden-design element. Pruning spring flowering shrubs. Information on when and how to prune. Suggestions for shrubs and perennials that would thrive under wet, sunny conditions. How to force branches of spring-blooming shrubs into premature flowering indoors. Advice on winter pruning of trees, shrubs and woody vines. Tip describes using a whisk broom to apply liquid fertilizers or pesticides to small shrubs. Bold, beckoning berries. A guide to shrubs with ornamental fruits to enliven a winter garden. Tip describes how to use a star-shaped planting hole for trees and shrubs. A guide to perennials, bulbs and shrubs that bloom in winter gardens in a USDA Zone 8 garden. A guide to little bulbs and flowering shrubs that bring winter show. Shrubs that do well in moist conditions are noted. Shrubs that flower and enhance mixed borders. Tip on making drip-line fertilizer holes for trees and shrubs. Tree and shrub choices to plant near a septic line. Advice on selecting prostrate, spreading shrubs to plant on a steep slope. A guide to shrubs that offer dazzling fall color. Sculpting trees and shrubs. The basics of pruning to create artful shapes. Renovating overgrown shrubs through judicious pruning. Tip on how to temporarily pull foundation shrubs away from a house for chores like painting or window cleaning. A technique for easy cleanup of trimmings when pruning trees or shrubs. A roundup of new tree and shrub varieties for 1979. A guide to angles and areas of pruning for trees and shrubs. A look at truedwarf English boxwood. How to select and raise flowering shrubs. Choose compact shrubs for compact gardens. 12 varieties are explored. Use this "butterfly" technique for planting container-grown trees and shrubs. The many good reasons for fall planting or transplanting of perennials shrubs and trees. Illustrations for pruning rose roots before replanting. Producing greens for holiday decorations, from trees and shrubs in your own yard. Tips on the preparation and decorating given. A guide to bulbs, perennials, shrubs and trees that provide spring flowers and are considered the most reliable performers. Buddleia, the butterfly bush. A look at the varieties and information on care and pruning. Guidelines on pruning flowering shrubs: what, when, where and how. Guidelines for cutting back huge privet shrubs drastically. Layering to increase shrubs and vines. Simple, tip, serpentine, trench, mound and air layering are explained. Includes a list of 30 shrubs and vines that can be propagated this way. Vitex, the lavender or sage tree. How to grow this shrub in both Northern and Southern areas. Boxwood in the garden. A look at selecting a proper site, maintenance, pruning and winter protection. Includes a guide to some of the hardiest varieties. Insert explains how to grow boxwood from cuttings. A guide to old-fashioned flowering shrubs. Raising trees and shrubs from seeds. Describes how to collect seeds, germinate them and transplant seedlings. Insert suggests ten plants to try and explains special handling for each. Tips on dealing with suckering by sumac, lilacs and crabapples. Tip on pruning flowering shrubs. Shrub substitutes. Improve the appearance of an aging border of spring-flowering shrubs by selective removal of old shrubs and replacing with single specimens of summer-flowering herbaceous perennials. Early-flowering shrubs. A guide to mahonia, witchhazel, spicebush, white forsythia, true forsythia, flowering quince, jasmine, kerria, redbud, spiraea, flowering almond, and azaleas. Summer-blooming shrubs for shade. Includes advice on glossy abelia, butterfly bush, beautyberry, sweet pepperbush, rose-of-sharon, hydrangea, Virginia sweetspire, plumleaf azalea and flowering raspberry. Old-fashioned shrubs for contemporary gardens. A look at Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas), Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa), Rosa rugosa, Rosa hugonis, Japanese kerria (Kerria japonica), Summersweet (Clethra Alnifolia), Abelia, and Vitex. Sculptural shrubs, those with irregular contours that are grown for their effect in the landscape. Planting shrubs and trees. Digging the hole, planting, mulching, etc. How to determine if a shrub is alive or dead before it leafs out in the spring. How low can they grow. Selecting and using dwarf shrubs which don't require much pruning. Tip on rooting young branches while they're still attached to a shrub. Advice and cautions on creating a woodland garden of flowering shrubs beneath a mature stand of trees. Japanese kerria. Advice on physical properties, uses, and growing. Shady shrubs. A guide to multiseason shrubs that will bloom in shade. Euonymus. Suggestions for incorporating this low-maintenance shrub into the home landscape. Moving trees and shrubs to improve a home landscape. Includes advice on root pruning, digging and wrapping a root ball, and replanting. How and when to prune trees and shrubs. Shear delights. How to prune and train a shrub into a small, multistemmed tree or a standard. Tip suggests ways to prevent road-salt damage to trees and shrubs. Spirea, a guide to some choice selections. Its use in garden design, care, culture and pruning tips. How to improve subterranean drainage around a shrub. Fall color in trees and shrubs. A list of plants arranged by fall foliage colors. Tips on how to root prune a shrub before moving it. Dwarf fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenii), its characteristics and culture. One way to visualize the full-grown size of a tree or shrub. Advice on winter trunk tie-up for columnar or upright trees and shrubs. Finding a privacy shrub that is tolerant of winter road salt, but provides a visual and road-noise screen as well. Landscaping with shrubs. A guide to seventeen shrubs that are colorful, fragrant and easy to acquire and care for. Hardy herbal shrubs. A dozen favorites that are hardy to USDA Zone 4. Culture and uses of wintergreen, bearberry, lingonberry, large cranberry, willows, witch hazels, bayberry and wax myrtle, elders, crampbarks and dwarf conifers. Start your own backyard nursery and cut the high cost of landscaping. How to raise your own trees and shrubs for later transplanting. Tips on transplanting. How to successfully transplant trees and shrubs. How to transplant trees and shrubs, both balled and bare-root stock. SPECIAL SECTION: OUTDOOR LIVING. Ideas for decks, gazebos, poolside pavilion and landscaping. No construction details included. Chart of 50 top shrubs and trees for landscaping. Winter wraps for outdoor plants. Suggestions for protecting evergreens, young trees, shrubs, roses, etc. Shrubs for all seasons. A chart of the four seasons tells which shrubs will provide color during that season. Includes tips on planting, care, feeding, etc. Winterizing shrubs and trees. Some tips. Fall fertilizing tips for lawn and shrubs. How to protect your trees and shrubs from winter kill. How to raise early-blooming trees and shrubs such as forsythia, saucer magnolia, etc. Winter wraps for your garden. How to protect trees and shrubs during the winter. Cool-colored shrubs. An early-, mid-, and late-season guide to shrubs and small trees which feature cool-colored blossoms of white, pink, blue, and purple. Planting a container-grown shrub. Step-by-step instructions. Pruning tips from PlantAmnesty, an organization designed to teach people how to properly prune their trees and shrubs. Planting an acid-loving shrub. Step-by-step instructions. Profiles in green. A brief look at some deciduous trees, shurbs and vines which remain verdant year-round. A role for shrubs in the mixed border. How to divide a shrub. Step-by-step illustrations of the procedure. How to move a large shrub successfully. Small shrubs for the ornamental border. Raising standards. How to train a tree or shrub that would normally assume a bushy or floppy outline to become a single stem. Sketches show how to train a standard privet and a standard wisteria. Step-by-step guide to making hardwood cuttings for propagating shrubs. The delights of forcing. How to induce indoor, preseasonal blossoms from spring- or winter-flowering shrubs. Describes how to force forsythia, "white forsythia," flowering quince, winter currant and several winter bloomers. Weigelas and abelias. A guide to recommended varieties of these two summer-blooming shrubs. Step-by-step guide to pruning a spring-flowering shrub. Goatsbeard (Aruncus dioicus) varieties, site selection and culture. The use of variegated plants in landscaping. Variegated species of trees and shrubs are described. Leadplant (Amorpha canescens), a small shrub that fits well in the perennial border. Includes advice on drought-tolerant companion plantings. A sampler of trees and shrubs that produce brilliant fall colors. Gilding the garden with golden-leaved plants. A guide to plants with gold foliage. Florida anise (Illicium floridanum). From the ground up. Hard pruning transforms familiar trees and shrubs. Shrubs can be manipulated so that they have most of the characteristics of herbaceous perennials, while still retaining some of the style of a shrub. Coast silk tassel (Garrya elliptica). A description of the shrub and its culture. Shrubs that go the distance. A summary of long-blooming shrubs and their use in the landscape. How to treat a red tip shrub (Photinia xfraseri) afflicted with entomosporium leaf spot. Sizzling caesalpinias. A look at species of these subtropical trees and shrubs. Advice on growing them in zones 9 and 10 and in containers. Classic winter-flowering or fruit-bearing shrubs to enliven the winter landscape in the southeast described. Advice on shrubs and trees that will give privacy from the road and that will tolerate deicing salts. A suggestion on trees and shrubs that produce orange foliage color in the fall. A harvest of winter color. The best cold-hardy shrubs for cutting and forcing indoors. How to propagate trees, shrubs, and vines. Suggestions on landscaping with vines and bushes to shade and cool a house. Includes a suggestion on a misting system for a shrub-covered trellis and a selection of annual and perennial vines. Instant landscaping with trees and shrubs. The emphasis is on selecting and planting trees. Suggestions for trees and shrubs that duplicate the heirloom trees purchased from tree peddlers in the late 1800s. Tips on where and where not to plant them. How to transplant native shrubs and trees (dogwood, mulberry, sycamore, red cedar) from the woods to your yard. How to find and transplant tiny seedlings of trees and shrubs. A look at the Manzanita, an ornamental shrub with edible berries. Tip: Keep newly planted (or transplanted) trees and bushes from sinking by tying them to a stick which extends beyond the freshly dug hole. How to raise your own trees and shrubs from seed. Tips on protecting small plants and shrubs during the winter months. New ideas for transplanting trees and shrubs. Tips on selecting the best shrub or tree specimens for fall planting. Nuts for a hedge. How to grow filbert bushes for a privacy screen or as a windbreak. Portable redwood container on casters is an 8 cu.ft. box designed to hold a dwarf fruit tree. Insert explains how to train a container shrub. Step-by-step technique for moving a large shrub. Ten flowering trees and shrubs to use as accents in a home landscape. Tips on organic fertilizing of a Meyer lemon bush. Winterize your yard. A guide to plant protection to prevent cold weather damage. Tip: How and when to transplant mature barberry bushes. The easy path to perfect fall pruning of trees and shrubs. A guide to perfect pruning of shade trees, fruit trees, small fruits, ornamental shrubs and roses. Tip on forcing prolonged bloom from branches of shrubs brought indoors to flower. Landscaping with shrubs that will provide food and shelter for beneficial insects and pest-eating birds. Advice on propagating new mock orange bushes from old ones by taking cuttings. Also offers suggestions on why a bush has never bloomed. Tree and shrub pruning techniques. How to plant trees and shrubs. Clean cut. A guide to pruning trees and shrubs. How to protect your plants and shrubs against winter. Suggestions for plants and shrubs that do well in most low-light conditions. A look at raising a Japanese aucuba. A look at the favorite flowers, trees and shrubs from four western mild-winter areas. A guide to planting bare-root trees and shrubs. Latest recommendations for planting young container-grown trees and shrubs. Tips on planting summer-fragrant shrubs and vines. Tips on planting an evergreen subshrub called the bush morning glory. Tips on growing trailing lantana. Tips on three ways to wall-train an espaliered pyracantha. Tip: How to plant a shrub. A guide to five flowering shrubs that will thrive in dry gardens: Bush anemone, Wild lilac, Western redbud, Bush poppy and Flannel bush. How to grow proteas in northern California. A guide to four evergreen flowering shrubs that can take temperatures down to at least 25 degrees. How to rejuvenate deciduous shrubs with aggressive pruning over a three year period. Training and pruning flowering quince. The unthirsty 100. Listing of shrubs, ground covers, perennials, vines and trees which get along with little or no summer watering. Tips on planting and watering. Standards, shrubs that pass for trees. A look at some medium- to large-size shrubs trained into "standards." How to grow, harvest and preserve capers (Capparis spinosa). Basket Willow. A description of how willow is grown, gathered and made into baskets in Somerset, England. Includes instructions for planting and tending a "withy bed" of purple osier basket willow or red osier dogwood. In living color. A guide to shrubs that bring fiery fall hues to yards. How to grow the Bottle Brush plant (Callistemon speciosus). How to force cuttings from spring-flowering shrubs and trees to bloom indoors. Guidelines for selecting and planting flowering trees and shrubs in your yard. How to transplant trees and shrubs. | |||||||||
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