Cut price books for gardeners.
Pruning Clematis frightens many gardeners. Early flowering clematis alpina, montana, armandii and macropetala should be cut back ass soon as they have flowered in May. This encourages new growth for flowering next year.

Buying a good Pruning Book is a snip if it can save one good plant or thin out your fruiting crop at the right time.
It can be false economy to keep loping without purpose when the cost of a book can be repaid so quickly by the successful reshaping of your ornamental plants.

RHS Pruning and Training by C Brickell and David Joyce is a cut above other books on pruning and at £14 a clip, so it should be!

Prune your budget to around £7 for Pruning Plant by Plant the new paperback published August 2012.

Alan Titchmarsh’s paperback How to Garden: Pruning and Training is a snip at around a fiver

The best time to prune is when you have secateurs in your hand (and after you have read up on pruning).

Cut back or thin out other gardening books but do not pare down your opportunity to adjust your gardening book library.

A snip in time shortens the aggro from tree surgery.

Prunes are just dried up Plums.