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The Art of Creative Pruning: Inventive Ideas for Training and Shaping Trees and Shrubs
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Author
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Jake Hobson.
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Publisher
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Timber Press
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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10.25
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8.8
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0.9
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ISBN
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9781604691146
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Pages/Publication Date
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200/2011
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Daedalus Item Code
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30449
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List Price:
$34.95
Sale Price:
$14.98
You Save:
$19.97
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Description
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"In smoothly flowing, evocative text, [Jake] Hobson introduces recent approaches to topiary, ranging from an amateur's gravity-free South Carolina garden to the professionally developed, extraordinary topiary in the French Marqueyssac Garden, captured poetically in the early morning fog. Deciduous hedges segue from screens to architecture: arches forming gateways, buttresses creating seating bays, crenellated battlements defining fortifications, and sophisticated, bare-trunked, raised hedges elegantly lining a garden thoroughfare. Hobson presents examples of Asian aesthetics that involved microcosms of nature created without removing plants from their natural state, as with Western pruning, but instead manipulating and enhancing that natural state. A love affair with living sculpture, this coffee-table book exceeds expectations with how-to diagrams, tips on maintenance and tools, and a list of references accompanying genuinely breathtaking full-color photos."—Booklist (starred review)
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