There's no garden tool as essential as a good pair of pruners. Without them, your plants will grow unruly and diseased. A ...

From high-tech to centuries old, Paul Epsom has some great suggestions for choosing your next pair of pruners and how to maintain them. No. 2: A favorite of nurserymen all over the world ...

Learn more› By Meg Muckenhoupt and Ellen Airhart We’re confident that the Felco 2 pruners are the best you can reliably get, and we’ve added a new pick for people with small hands ...

Find out if pruning shears and hand pruners are the same thing and how to choose the best cutting tool for the job. Grab your pruning shears. Or is it hand pruners? Actually, several names refer ...

Almost every time I head out into the garden, the first tool I put in my back pocket is a well-worn Felco No. 2 hand pruner. I acquired it around 1978 when I started gardening in Spokane.

When I joined a national garden club several ages ago, my thank you gift was a shiny bypass pruner with green handles. It took only a few clippings before the blades dulled and shredded plant stems.

To find the best garden tools for various setups — be it a pruner or hedge trimmer — I spoke with Morell and 9 other garden experts. Update on April 21, 2025: Updated prices and checked stock ...

If you often need to prune large shrubs or small trees, a pole pruner can be a useful tool. “It can extend your reach to trim small twigs and branches, so you may not have to climb a ladder ...