The Climbing Plants Specialist: The Essential Guide to Choosing, Planting, Improving and Caring for Climbing Plants and Wall Shrubs

by David Squire, Alan Bridgewater (Editor), Gill Bridgewater (Editor), Gill Bridgewater

Overview

Fill the garden with a glorious explosion of color and vitality that draws the eye skyward! Easily followed advice on selecting, planting, and caring for climbing plants and wall shrubs are 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 using “vertical gardening.” A special section on climbing and rambling roses will help keep these favorites vigorous year after year.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845371050
Publisher:	New Holland Publishers, Limited UK
Publication date:	03/28/2006
Series:	Specialist Series
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.30(d)

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.

Table of Contents

	Author's foreword	2
	Getting Started
	Climbers and wall shrubs	3
	Range of climbers	4
	Climbers for all places	6
	Seasonal displays	8
	Looking After Climbers and Wall Shrubs
	Buying a climber or wall shrub	10
	Supporting a climber	12
	Pruning climbers and wall shrubs	14
	Pruning climbing roses	18
	Pruning rambling roses	19
	Increasing climbers	20
	Routine care of climbers and wall shrubs	22
	A-Z of Climbers and Wall Shrubs
	Flowers	24
	Climbing annuals	32
	Attractive leaves	34
	Autumn-coloured foliage	36
	Seedheads, fruits and berries	38
	A-Z of Climbing and Rambling Roses
	Climbing and rambling roses	40
	Using Climbers and Wall Shrubs
	Covering walls	48
	Dressing pergolas	50
	Clothing arches and tunnels	51
	Arbours	52
	Free-standing screens	53
	Clothing trees and tree stumps	54
	Cottage-garden climbers	55
	Climbers in containers	56
	Fragrant climbers and wall shrubs	58
	Fragrant climbing and rambling roses	60
	Plant associations with climbers and wall shrubs	62
	Plant associations with roses	66
	Climbing and scrambling vegetables	68
	Wall-trained fruit	69
	Formal garden displays	70
	Climbers as hedges	72
	Climbers as ground cover	73
	Small-garden climbers, wall shrubs and roses	74
	Colour parade	75
	Problems with climbers	76
	Glossary	78
	Index	79