Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Tools

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• To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
• Subject: Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Tools
• From: "* Q* B* <q*@IQUEST.NET>
• Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 16:40:03 -0500

At 01:05 PM 1/30/98 EST, you wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I have a question for the gardener's understanding of tool talk.
>
>In writing an article (newletter writing) and using the the term pruning
>shears, I have
>comments that a perennial or flower gardener does not use pruning shears.
>
CLAIRE -
        Perhaps they were trying to convey that pruning shears should not be  used
to trim shrubs or other woody plants, as the tendency in using them is to
make shrubs into "balls" or "flatheads" and remove their natural shapes.
Pruners (not shears) are more commonly used so that growing tips are
removed one at a time to keep the natural appearance or to improve the
plant's structure.

Carolyn Q. Bryson - Indianapolis

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