Garden Master 3-Piece Gardening Tool Set

"The lopper is ideal for cutting medium size or inaccessible branches.  The long handles for the lopper give you extra reach and greater leverage for added cutting power.  High carbon steel heat treated blades.  Proper pruning cuts are made at a node; the point at which once branch or twig attached to another.  Avoid cutting fencing or wire with your loppers.  Fencing can potentially damage; chip or even snap your lopper blades rendering your warranty useless.  Prune first for safety next for health and finally aesthetics.  Maintain blades by oiling regularly.  The hedge shear is used to tender new growth.  Ideal for precise cutting.  The high carbon steel heat treated blades.  When shaping a hedge; keep the base wider than the top.  This will allow sufficient sunlight to reach the growth at the bottom; keeping it healthy.  When trimming a hedge; it is best to start with the sides which are easier to keep straight.  When you are cutting; sweep the blades from right to left holding your left hand close to you.  Maintain the blades by oiling regularly.  The bypass pruner is ideal for precision cutting as cut is easy and clean.  Suited to cutting green or growing stems.  High carbon steel heat treated blades.  When pruning small branches with hand pruners; make sure the tools are sharp enough to cut the branches cleanly without tearing.  Remove structually weak and dead limbs first.  Cut off the limbs that appear dead or limbs with leaves that look distressed.  Roses should not be pruned before mid July in most regions of South Africa.  Pruning late in July and early August is perfectly agreeable to the rose and delaying the pruning even further will result in the roses flowering later in October.  Maintain blades by oiling regularly."