The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Trees

The Art and Science to grow with confidence

by ; Tony Kirkham

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Pub Date Sep 21 2021 | Archive Date Oct 19 2021

Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion | Frances Lincoln

Home & Garden

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Description

Grow trees with confidence and creativity in your garden.

From the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this essential guide by tree expert, Tony Kirkham, is the ultimate companion for anyone looking to plant and nurture trees successfully.

Packed with 12 easy, inspiring projects and beautiful botanical illustrations, The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Trees combines practical advice with creative ideas, part of the best-selling series of Kew Gardener's Guides.

There is a place in every garden for a tree, but before buying it is important to think about why and what you are planting and where. Do you want to plant for privacy, as a single ornamental specimen for seasonal interest or to attract wildlife?

This book provides:

Expert guidance on selecting trees for privacy, ornamental beauty or wildlife.
Step-by-step projects, including growing a tree from seed, creating a multi-stemmed birch and making a bee hotel.
Detailed profiles of a wide range of trees for every size of garden.
Tips on pruning and aftercare to ensure long-term success.

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced gardener, this book offers everything you need to make trees a thriving feature in your garden.

This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles available: Growing Herbs, Growing House Plants, Growing Bulbs, Growing Fruit, Growing Orchids, Growing Vegetables, Growing Roses, Growing Cacti and Succulents, Growing Perennials, Growing Shrubs, Growing Alpines.

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EDITION	Other Format
ISBN	9780711261983
PRICE	$16.00 (USD)
PAGES	144

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This is a well illustrated, very informative guide to growing trees in the home garden. There are many profiles of trees with information and photos of each, along with lots of good info on propagation, pruning, problems, etc. There are even some fun projects related to trees, trimmed branches and leaves.

Be aware that the zone information is completely wrong throughout, though. It lists very cold hardy trees like oaks, dogwoods, maples and mulberries as zone 6 or 7 when they easily grow in a zone 3 or 4 garden, if not colder. Then it lists trees like olive as zone 4 when they could not possibly grow in a zone 4 yard. The temperature ranges are also incorrect, and often don't match the zone listed. Olives, for instance, are listed as tolerating temperatures down to the 20's F when zone 4 is something like -30, and they have olive trees incorrectly listed as zone 4 trees. Meanwhile, they say trees like oaks can handle only temps above zero, which is utterly false. Hopefully these will be corrected before publication.

There is not a huge range of trees profiled, but it's a great guide to trees in general.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

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Kelly H, Reviewer

I have read, and loved, several of the Kew Gardener’s Guides and this one on growing trees is no exception. With gorgeous photos and illustrations, helpful how-tos and easy to follow information on popular trees, this is a great book to have on hand when learning about trees and their care!

We have a garden full of unusual trees so I’ve spent much time investigating and trying to work out what each is. And then they had babies! So now, we have Ginkgo growing from a branch in a pot! I picked up this book to learn how to care for our beautiful trees and I couldn’t have picked a better one to learn from. It has 12 great projects, lovely tips and a wealth of information on a wide variety of trees.

If you are looking for a wonderful book, beautiful illustrations and wisdom, I highly recommend this one, it’s five out five on the enJOYment scale.

I received a complimentary copy of the book from Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.