pruners

The fussier rose varieties prefer you call the pruners "secateurs," but that is another story.

unknown title 2009

Secateurs (aka pruners, pruning shears) are probably the tool which I use most frequently when out in the garden or up at the allotment.

British Blogs 2009

For example, a British study showed that rose bushes pruned with hedge clippers yielded as many flowers as those carefully manicured with hand pruners -- and that roses left alone yielded still more!

Linda Buzzell: The Zen of Pruning Linda Buzzell 2012

I went up in a 120-year-old red oak at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx a couple of weeks ago, with the help of two of its climber/pruners, Corey Link and Zev Reuter.

Natural High William L. Hamilton 2011

The group wants to help educate and train community residents to become so-called citizen pruners — volunteers who learn about care for trees in the neighborhood for the long term.

Powering Green Efforts Shelly Banjo 2011

For example, a British study showed that rose bushes pruned with hedge clippers yielded as many flowers as those carefully manicured with hand pruners -- and that roses left alone yielded still more!

Linda Buzzell: The Zen of Pruning Linda Buzzell 2012

Sometimes you need a spade, sometimes pruners, but when you are gardening you really have to look.

Garden Guru Piet Oudolf 2011

For example, a British study showed that rose bushes pruned with hedge clippers yielded as many flowers as those carefully manicured with hand pruners -- and that roses left alone yielded still more!

Linda Buzzell: The Zen of Pruning Linda Buzzell 2012

Now, Sitbolt, Harris and millions of other garden junkies — three out of four Americans garden, the National Garden Association says — are fleeing the indoors and finding bliss outside with shovels and pruners in tow.

Spring has sprung gardeners, and 3 in 4 Americans can dig it 2010

For example, a British study showed that rose bushes pruned with hedge clippers yielded as many flowers as those carefully manicured with hand pruners -- and that roses left alone yielded still more!

Linda Buzzell: The Zen of Pruning Linda Buzzell 2012