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Climbing Plants Specialist

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Fill your garden with a glorious explosion of color and vitality that draws the eye skyward! The Climbing Plants Specialist guide gives advice on selecting, planting, and caring for climbing plants and wall shrubs. The advice is highlighted by more than 300 color photographs, illustrations, and diagrams. There's a complete A-Z compendium, extensive feeding and pruning directions, and tips for successful "vertical gardening." Just because you have a small space doesn't mean you can't turn it into the outdoor space of your dreams. Author David Acquire gives gardening tips and includes a special section specifically dedicated to climbing and rambling roses, teaching the reader how to keep these favorites vigorous year after year. His advice helps gardeners with choosing the best plants, shrubs, and climbing plants. He teaches them to care for them properly, providing in-depth instruction on how to care for each plant in the book. Along with feeding the plants, you'll receive pruning directions and other tips for caring for your new plants. Vertical gardening doesn't have to be intimating. Using this book as your guide, you'll be able to adequately hang and secure your plants as they rise above you. In addition, you'll receive advice and tips

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Pages 80
Publish Date 2006-03-28
Size 7.3" x 9.4" x 0.03"
Author David Squire
Product Form Paperback / softback

About the Author

David Squire has worked for many years as a gardening writer and editor. He has contributed to numerous gardening magazines and is the author (or co-author) of more than 80 gardening and plant-related books. His books include four titles in the new Home Gardener's Specialist Guide series (Fox Chapel Publishing) plus The Scented Garden (Orion) which won the "Quill and Trowel Award" of the Garden Writers of America. David trained as a horticulturist at the Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and at the Royal Horticultural Society, where he was awarded the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He was awarded an N.K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants. In 2005, this collection of plants was accepted by the Booth Museum of Natural History to become library and museum exhibits. He has a passionate interest in the uses of native plants, whether for eating and survival, or for their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs.

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