The Christmas holidays are fast approaching and, like many of us, you may still be looking for the gift to give to some family members or friends? So, here is a nice idea which, in addition, is very practical for someone who loves outdoor gardening.
If you want to know everything about the pruning of trees, shrubs, roses, climbers, hedges, perennials, small fruit trees, this book will satisfy you since it covers all the technical gestures of the art of the necessary pruning to know to properly maintain your ornamental garden.
The main notions of pruning are presented, in great detail, with the pruning of shrubs (when and how to prune flowering shrubs, evergreens), the pruning of roses, the pruning of climbers, the pruning of the hedge, the pruning trees (should we practice radical pruning or gentle pruning? when to prune?), the pruning of perennials (why, when and how to prune them), the pruning of small fruit trees (blackcurrant, raspberry, gooseberry, etc.), the pruning in the vegetable garden (tomato, pumpkin, melon, zucchini, eggplant)…
Anyone who has ever had a garden to maintain knows that pruning cannot be improvised, otherwise you risk not having fruit or flowers the following year, for example... To keep trees and shrubs in full health with pretty flowers and beautiful fruits, it is better to follow the advice of a specialist!
The chosen presentation does not spoil anything and makes it a gift:in a very high-end refined design box, the book is next to the very high quality secateurs, with wooden handle and shiny silver metal blades.
Catherine Delvaux is well known to gardeners, since she is a skilled gardener, as the expression goes, and a specialist in plants. In addition, they direct the editorial staff of the magazine "Détente Jardin". Her passion for the garden has led her to write numerous books on the subject, such as
Le Carnet jardinier or The Best of Plants .
(Editions Larousse – 16.90 EUR)
In the same gift box collection, I invite you to discover "Wonderful Orchids" by Françoise and Philippe Lecouflé , embellished with a nice vaporizer, in a very elegant box.
Today, the trend is to offer orchids of all kinds:the stalls of florists are full of them:we like it or we don't like it, but we have to maintain them properly! However, we do not necessarily know how to take care of them or how to make them bloom again.
The book thus answers all these questions on the cultivation of orchids (light, watering, ventilation, fertilization, staking, repotting... and it presents the main genera (Phalaenopsis of course, but also Angraecum, Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Odontoglossum, Paphiopedilum, Vanda…).
(Editions Larousse – 12.90 EUR)
