Restoration of perennials and container gardening

Restoration of perennials and container gardening - Business Tools There are several different cutting tools for use in the garden. Each is specialized for the particular job is designed to do. The most important thing about cutting tools sharp is to keep well, as this will make the job much easier. These are the main types of tools you need for pruning: Pruning shears are essential.

Use them for cutting stems up to about 1.5-2cm (1/2-3Ain) in diameter. Keen gardeners prefer the parrot's beak, bypass type works with a scissor action (see page 44). Bypass secateurs giving a clean cut, at least they do if you keep them sharp and clean the sap from the leaves each time you use them. If you do not want to spend much, anvil type (see page 44) is less expensive and so well.

Until it moves in the rarefied world of specialist pruning, there really is almost nothing to choose between them, so buy what you feel most comfortable. Loppers long handle are more powerful than secateurs, and long handles give more leverage for cutting thicker stems. They are also good to get to the center of dense shrubs. pruning saws are for branches. Always cut a branch near the trunk or main stem. Do not leave a stump die again and not cut flush with the trunk. Let the 'neck' raised at the base of the branch, bark stimulates growth over the wound and heals better.

Clipper reaching are invaluable if you have high trees to work because they save up stairs. Keep them well oiled for smooth action. How ... Prune spring flowering shrubs Some spring and early summer flowering shrubs - "Philadelphus (mock orange) and Forsythia in particular -" can be very difficult if not pruned every year. A full of old stems that do not have long abandoned plant flowers. You can easily identify these stems, even outside the flowering season, as they have a darker crust and look a little twisted. How to prune these shrubs is give them a glorified deadheading.

As soon as the flowers are, they reduce all sterns carrying dead flowers. Follow the stem down until a good strong young bud or side shoot no dead flowers on it, and cut just above the point where it emerges from the main branch. What regularly each year, spring and shrubs will stay neater, and perform many more flowers. technique for most shrubs after flowering is very similar, but it does in winter. The rule of thumb is: if the flowers before mid-summer (eg mid-June), prune immediately after flowering and if flowering later, prune is late winter or early spring.

You can apply this rule to almost any plant with woody stems. 1Shrubs as Philadelphus (mock orange) and this Ribes (flowering currant) benefit from having a little more cut stems every year. You can identify the seniors for their gnarled stems and spent flowers carried on side branches. 2 Use a pair of shears to cut the thick stems, taking as close to ground level as possible. Make cuts just above a bud or side shoot young. Then use scissors to remove any weak or diseased stems you find. 3 As a result of this annual pruning "renewal", which will end with a shapely and healthy shrub that produces masses of flowers on vigorous young wood each spring - "instead of an old war horse and Tired soncient and look tatty. You can send flowers to Hyderabad with best quality flower delivery in Hyderabad You can visit this flower guide for more information on this item.