Starting a garden feels easier with the right tools. These ten beginner friendly essentials make planting, watering, pruning, ...

Anyone mistaken enough to grow ornamental grasses should be starting to think about how to tidy them up now we’ve come to the end of their winter “display” of gloomy brown heaps topped with bits of ...

As any homeowner knows, even the most beautiful, professionally landscaped yards require regular maintenance. Luckily, when it comes to freshening up your greenery, the best pruning shears make it ...

Grass shears allow precision cuts for those awkward places that need trimming back, areas where the mower doesn’t fit, and wherever the trimming job is too small for a lawn edger. Manual grass shears ...

Many landscape plants will require pruning at some stage of their life. Plants may need to be pruned to reduce or maintain plant size or to remove dead or damaged material. Pruning is also used to ...

No gardening tool collection is complete without a pair of pruning shears. These shears help you keep dead branches trimmed away and cut your flowers back with precision. As a result, choosing the ...

Jakoti Hand Shears, £14.95 plus £2.50 p&p From Jakoti by mail order (01458 850066; www.handshears.co.uk) What you get: A pair of steel scissor-action hand shears with red handles, wire locking loop ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Now is the ideal time to get out and get pruning. Look at your ...

These advances in tools also have created new challenges involving the complex interactions between users and their tools. Improper hand tool selection has been known to result in injuries, variable ...