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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Basics | |
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| Basic Cuts | |
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| Selective Pruning Techniques | |
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| Suckers and Water Sprouts | |
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| Looking For Deadwood | |
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| Timing | |
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| Pruning Tools | |
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| How to Prune Hedges | |
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| Principles of Landscape Renovation | |
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| The Most Common Design Errors | |
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| The Plants | |
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| Mounding-Habit Shrubs | |
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| Abelia | |
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| Boxwood | |
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| Burning Bush | |
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| Evergreen Azalea | |
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| Heath/Heather, Lavender, Rockrose, and Broom | |
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| Juniper | |
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| Spiraea | |
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| Three More Mounders: Escallonia, Mexican Orange, and Flowering Quince | |
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| Cane-Growing Shrubs | |
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| Bamboo, Heavenly Bamboo, Kerria, Oregon Grape, and Julian's Barberry | |
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| Forsythia | |
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| Hydrangea | |
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| Hybrid Tea Roses | |
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| Three More Cane-Growers: Butterfly Bush, Mock Orange, and Red Twig Dogwood | |
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| Tree-Like Shrubs | |
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| Camellia | |
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| Cotoneaster | |
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| Deciduous Azalea | |
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| English Laurel, English Holly, and Photinia | |
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| Lilac | |
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| Rhododendron | |
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| Viburnum x Bodnantense and Beautyberry | |
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| Witch Hazel, Doublefile Viburnum, and Winter Hazel | |
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| More Tree-Likes: Pieris and Golden Thread Cypress, Smoke Bush, and Other Stick-Up Plants | |
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| Vines | |
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| Clematis | |
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| Wisteria | |
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| Trees | |
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| Big Trees | |
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| Dogwood | |
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| Fruit Trees | |
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| Japanese Laceleaf Maple | |
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| Japanese Maple | |
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| Magnolia | |
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| Ornamental Cherry, Crabapple, and Purple-Leaf Plum Trees | |
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| Weeping Cherry | |
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| Japanese Pruning of Pines | |
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| Ground Covers | |
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| English Ivy | |
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| Hypericum | |
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| Salal | |
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| Even More Plants to Prune | |
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| Aucuba, Fatsia, and Skimmia | |
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| Ceanothus | |
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| Daphne | |
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| Hollywood Juniper | |
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| Sarcococca and Drooping Leucotho� | |
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| Strawberry Bush | |
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| Viburnum Davidii | |
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| The Whackables: Lavatera, Senecio Greyi, Perovskia, Hardy Fuchsia, and Cape Fuchsia | |
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| Three Fruit-Bearers | |
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| Figs | |
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| Grapes | |
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| Raspberries | |
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| Taming the Native-Plant Garden | |
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| Regional Pruning by Plant Habit | |
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| Three Views on Sterilizing Your Tools | |
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| Index | |