Introduction to Horticulture& Landscaping

Plant: White Pine

Cutting Tools

White Pine

• Plant type: Evergreen Tree • USDA Hardiness Zones: 3b to 7a • Height: 50 to 75 ft. Spread: 25 to 35ft. • Exposure: partial shade to full sun

– Optimum growth in full sun

• Leaf Color: Blue, Green • Growth Rate: average • Form: Oval, Pyramidal • Landscape Uses: Christmas tree, Aggressive surface

roots possible, Screen or hedge, Specimen • Meticulous shearing necessary to form marketable

Christmas tree

Snips

• Used for cutting small non-woody branches, flowers

Hand Pruners

• Also called pruning shears

• Also come in anvil or bypass

• Used for cutting branches up to ½ to ¾ inch

Hedge Shears

• Hedge & grass shears

• Have long blades and are used to cut multiple small branches with each cut

• Good: Hedges

• Bad: Meatballs

Loppers

• Used for cutting branches up to 1 ½” diameter. Two types:

• Anvil

• Bypass

Saws

• Pole saw

• Gas powered pole saw

• Pruning saw

• Chain saw

• Bow saw

Name that tool

A. Lopper

B. Snips

C. Hand Pruner

D. Shears

Name that tool

A. Lopper

B. Snips

C. Hand Pruner

D. Shears

Name that tool

A. Lopper

B. Pruning Saw

C. Bow Saw

D. Hand Saw

Name that tool

A. Tree Saw

B. Pruning Saw

C. Bow Saw

D. Pole Saw

Name that tool

A. Pole Saw

B. Pruning Saw

C. Bow Saw

D. Hand Saw

Name that tool

A. Lopper

B. Snips

C. Shears

D. Pruners

Which tool is best for

• Cutting flowers?

• Cutting tree branches that are 2” diameter?

• Shaping a hedge?

• Cutting down a Christmas tree?