Nursery and Landscape #3: Pruning and Edging Tools

Heavy-duty snippers/scissors for plants and shrubs

• lapping pruner, hand pruner, or common name "snippers"

• hedge shears

• shrub clipper

• thinning shears

A two-handed cutting tool especially for shaping hedges.

• garden fork

• hedge clippers or hedge shears
• pruning saw

• lawnmower

A one-handed tool used to trim grass along sidewalks, roadways, the edge of planting beds, and around trees, posts, etc...

• grass shears
• hedge clippers

• mower blade

• pruner

Long-handled scissor-like tool for trimming woody branches.

• garden fork

• trimming shears

• pole pruners

• loppers

A long-handled tool used to make small pruning cuts that cannot be reached with hand tools

• pole pruner
• fork trimmer

• long-handle saw

• clipper

A handsaw used for pruning trees.

• chain saw

• bow saw

• pruning saw
• hacksaw

A narrow saw stretched like a bowstring on a light frame used for cutting small to medium tree branches.

• bent-saw
• bow saw
• chainsaw
• pole pruner

A motorised tool made of lots of small blades that move very quickly, used for pruning large branches or for cutting down trees.

• chainsaw
• axe
• hedge trimmer
• lawn mower

A motorized tool for defining the edges of curbs, sidewalks, pathways, and other hardscape beds.

• garden sprayer
• leaf blower
• hardscape cutter
• lawn edger

A manual tool for defining the edges of curbs, sidewalks, pathways, and other hardscape beds.

• broom
• laser cutter
• spade
• rotary edger