GUIDE TO GREAT GARDENS

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1 Fiskars pruning tools offer a wide range of products so that you can choose the right tool for your specific pruning job. 010mm t-_ 015mm 016mm GUIDE TO GREAT GARDENS o20mm o 38mm 050mm 050mm o120mm ^rr

2 FISKARS Founded in 1649, Fiskars is one of the world's oldest companies and is the global No.1 for garden hand tools. Originally best known for our orange-handled scissors, our garden tools have long been recognised for the same superior quality, design and innovation. Fiskars continues to lead the way in developing garden tools, specially engineered to be powerful, lightweight and comfortable to use. Each tool has its own unique features, designed to help reduce the effort, fatigue and strain that's often associated with gardening. Less effort. More garden.»t bidet will help your uriderstand the basics of the most important and potentially enjoyable garden tasks. it also contains invaluable advice on selecting the right tool for the job ensuring your customers will makelight work of the job at hand achieving excellent results every time, Happy gardening! In this guide Why should you prune? Pruning plants is essential for a number of reasons: >^_^Y= Regular removal of dead, dying or diseased wood by pruning reduces the risk of diseases entering your precious plants. Removing poor wood such as rubbing or crossing branches reduces disease and damage risks. Carefully pruned flowering plants whether they be annuals, perennials, shrubs or small trees will produce more flowers year-after-year. Fruiting plants will yield larger harvests of quality fruit. Use pruning to keep your plants to a desired size and form especially when they are growing in a confined or difficult space. Pruning also allows you to train plants to shape through hedging or topiary. When should you prune? Maintenance pruning: Keeping plants in check or removing sick, dead or dangerous branches - can be conducted whenever the need arises. Productive pruning: Trimming to improve vigour, flowering or fruiting - know your plants as this will vary with the species and cultivar and your climate zone. General pruning suggestions: Dead, diseased or dangerous branches Roses Spring Flowering Plants Summer Flowering Plants Stone fruit Remove anytime June (warm zones) - August (cool zones) September - October February - March During dormancy (varies with species)

3 Pruning Roses If you want the best out of your roses they need a good pruning every year. If you don't prune your roses over a couple of years, flowering will reduce and they'll become untidy. Prune in winter when roses are dormant. You can reduce the bush by as much as two-thirds! Remove dead, diseased or non-productive wood and open the bush up by removing congested branches. Make cuts to just above an outward facing bud (see diagrams to right). PowerGearTM Bypass pruners are the ideal choice for the job as they'll provide clean cuts and reduce fatigue when you have lots of pruning to do. It is important to position and angle a pruning cut correctly in relation to the bud. Making a cut too close or too far away from a bud will impact on both the bud growth and the retained wood. Selecting the right tool ^s Powers" uners are the ideal tool for pruning jobs - the revolutionary PowerGearT" technology triples cutting power for effortless cutting and the lightweight NyglassT"' material makes the handles virtually unbreakable. A clean and accurate cut is ensured thanks to hardened steel blades with PTFE coating. Hand pruners and loppers are available with either anvil or bypass blades. There are advantages to both. Anvil blades: Efficient cutting action. For dry, hard and old growth. Precise clean flush cuts. Ideal for new green growth. Cuts close to trunk or stem,

4 Pruning Trees Trees are a challenge to prune. Here are some simple guidelines to make your trees healthier and a more attractive part of your garden for years to come. Fiskars Easy Reach Pruning Wan& help to cut the tree easily from the ground with a safe easy to use ropeless cutting action. Pruning trees safely from the ground They take the strain out of cutting even larger branches of up to 32mm. The cutting head can be rotated up to 230 degrees, allowing cuts in different angles, e.g. inward growing branches, or overhanging branches over buildings. The Universal Pruning wand has an overall length of 1.6m and the Telescopic Pruning wand extends up to 3.5m. 1. Dominant leader- only prune when height needs to be restricted. 2. Reduce or remove competing secondary leaders if required. 3. Prune inward growing, crossing or rubbing branches. 4. Remove weakly connected limbs - they show deeply furrowed bark at branch unions. 5. Remove branch watershoots (depending on species). 6. Remove damaged or diseased wood. 7. Remove suckers especially on grafted trees and shrubs.

5 Cutting Hedges A well trimmed hedge gives your garden a beautiful framework and serves as a useful noise and view barrier at the same time. Pruning hedges is a discipline in itself and it is important to give the hedge the right shape so that it can thrive: With 'skars PowerGear TM Hedge Shear, trimming hedges or shrubs, large or small, is an easy task. The PowerGearTM cutting system reduces muscle strain while the cushioned bumpers prevent jarring. These two features combined with the lightweight yet strong Nyglass TM handles and non-stick blades ensure that pruning and shaping your shrubs, hedges and topiary is an absolute pleasure. Keeping your hedge in shape Taper hedge sides so that bottom is wider than the top. Lower leaves and stems will die without adequate light. Hedges can be given different shapes according to taste: Informal Selectively shear back unwanted growth. 1. Cut out branches that droop or have fallen out. 2. On some species older branches can be trimmed to ground to stimulate new shoots. 3. Many hedges and shrubs such as Murraya or Lilly-pilly can be renovated by cutting back to as little as 30cm high. Use Fiskars PowerGear TM Loppers for this.

6 Cutting Lawns The unique Servo-System 1m mechanism prevents the blades from jamming even when cuffing wet grass. It ensures perfect cutting action every time, even after extended use. The Servo-Svstem- Sina!e Handed Shear is a two-in-one solution allowing you to trim your lawn as well as the edges. Regularly tendered lawns and edges give the garden a neat appearance.. isi(di evertm `edge Sty= is ideal for cutting hard to reach places. The shear has comfort soft grip handles, which provide extra grip, and the long handle reach helps prevent back strain.

7 The Cutting Workhorses Not all pruning or cutting is a delicate art. Occasionally larger tools are required for completely removing a shrub or tree or for preparing felled or cut material for reuse or convenient disposal. Fiskars Universal Axes and,a Axe are perfection in heavy-duty cutting with key features such as securely fitted wedge-free heads and light-weight yet superstrong ergonomic handles with sharp and durable drop-forged steel blades. To quickly spot the difference feel the weight - a splitter will always be heavier. Then compare the heads in profile, the head of a splitter is broader and wedge-like in profile to allow it to open up the wood. Fiskars splitters combine the quality of a cutting axe blade with the weight and width of a splitter axe. Camping Axe: Light cutting and felling, severing small roots, cutting firewood in the field. Axe: Heavy cutting and felling, severing roots and stump removal, preparing firewood for splitting, preparing greenwaste for disposal. Splitting Axe Cutting and splitting firewood for storage or immediate use. Top Wood Splitting Tips Select dry wood and to efficiently split the wood cut along the grain - down the length of the trunk or branch. If you need to cut green wood or cut across the grain use a Universal Axe.

8 Digging Tools Digging and turning the soil shouldn't be a chore. The spades; forks and shovels in the Fiskars range are ergonomically designed vjth unique head angles and specially designed handles. These features give you maximum lift a `, ;leverage while requiring less effort and ding. Fiskars Diaaina Tool put comfort, durability and efficiency in your hands as no other digging tools can. When it's time to break the soil make sure you grab the right tool for the task. gging Tools Spades are one of the most useful of garden tools and no gardener's kit should be without one. It's important to remember that spades are primarily tools for digging and for use where a strong, sharp edge is required. spades are generally for turning loose or previously cultivated soil such as in an annual flower-bed. They are also very useful for tasks such as trimming grass from garden edges and dividing clumps of perennials. Pointed spades are for digging in harder or uncultivated soil and are useful for more stubborn cutting and dividing tasks. Forks are your soils best friend, you'll most often put a fork to use once the spade work is done. Use a fork to reduce soil to a fine state of tilth once it has been spaded through. Your fork is also perfect for turning the soil in established gardens and for blending in composts, manures and fertilisers. You'll find your fork makes light work of moving chunky mulches and is ideal for aerating the lawn in spring too. Shovels, with their larger, dished heads, are primarily shifting and mixing tools. When you have soil, sand, gravel or mulch to move, or materials such as compost or cement to mix, then select a shovel. Shovels are also suitable for digging In very loose soil or sand. PL'