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1 Landscape Trees and Shrubs - Selection, Use and
Management
M Forrest
Paperback, 179 pages, 170 x 245mm, UK, 2006.
$115 From the cover – Trees and shrubs are extensively
used to enhance public areas and green spaces, and the right decisions must be
made to gain the optimal results from such schemes. Presenting a horticultural
overview of the main temperate tree and shrub families cultivated in urban and
rural landscapes, this book describes the identification, functional use and management
of 38 plant families. With reference to over 700 taxa and 100 planting schemes,
it will enable readers to assess the suitability of species and prepare planting
designs for prevailing sites. A valuable text book for students of landscape architecture,
horticulture and urban forestry, it will also be useful to professionals specializing
in nursery stock for garden centres, arboriculturalists undertaking tree surveys
and horticulturalists preparing inventories of cultivated plants. 2
Niwaki - Pruning, Training and Shaping Trees the Japanese Way
Jake Hobson
Hardback,
144 pages, 235 x 280mm, USA, 2007. $72 From the cover – Discover
the hidden character of your garden trees and learn how to: sculpt topiary
into asymmetrical mounds (karikomi)
train branches out over entranceways (monkaburi)
thin
pine needles to reveal interesting patterns (momiage)
cut back overgrown trees
to create new shapes (fukinaoshi)
bring out your trees’ innate yin and
yang Jake Hobson draws upon years of experience with Japanese gardens and
landscaping. He first travelled to Japan after completing a degree in sculpture
at London’s Slade School of Fine Arts. Intrigued by the tree pruning techniques
he encountered there, he spent a year working at an Osaka nursery. Jake then returned
to England with a desire to apply the skills he learned in a new context, settling
into a five-year position at Architectural Plants in West Sussex. In 2004 he set
up a business — Niwaki, Japanese Garden Tools — with his wife, Keiko.
A member of the Royal Horticultural Society, the European Boxwood and Topiary
Society and the Japanese Garden Society, he has written for the specialist journal
'Topiarus' and delivers lectures on Japanese pruning techniques throughout the
UK.
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