Alternate leaves diagram
Alternate leaves diagram showing a sprig of ash and a less closely packed example
Common Alder Alnus glutinosa Cones and catkins
Common Alder Alnus glutinosa Cones and catkins pencil study with outline of the leaf behind
Common Alder Alnus glutinosa roots
Common Alder Alnus glutinosa roots showing their distinctive growth habit
Common Alder Alnus glutinosa
Common Alder Alnus glutinosa tree, pen and ink study of a tree in full leaf
Pollarded Alder Alnusglutinosa
Pollarded Alder Alnusglutinosa tree in leaf
Summer pruning
Using secateurs to prune new growth in the summer
Training a fruit tree cordon
Trainign a cordon by pruning and tying onto supports at different times and periods of growth
Removing rose suckers
Getting rid of rose suckers by removing them from the parent soil under the soil wearing protective gloves
Shaping a hedge
Using guides and tips to get the shape you want for your hedge by pruning with shears
Producing a single stem tree
How to prune a tree to ensure you have a single stem tree
Taking a hardwood cutting
How to take a hardwood cutting from a parent plant, four steps showing making the cutting, dipping it in hormone rooting powder, and establishing it in a new pot to grow
Hedge laying
Steps involved in establishing or laying a new hedge showing digging a trench for compost, planting the hedge plants, pruning them, and keeping the hedge straight
Hedge shapes
Different shapes you can trim your hedge into including boxy, sloped, and rounded
Removing a branch
How to safely remove a branch, two steps showing the cuts involved
Propegating fig
How to grow figs or propegate figs from an established plant by taking cuttings and potting them up
Pruning bamboo
Garden with plastic sheet on the grass catching the bamboo cuttings which are being taken off the potted plants with secateurs. Dead leaves piled up and blue sky behind