Pruning shears, also known as hand pruners (in American English), or secateurs, are a sort of scissors to be used on plants. They are robust sufficient to prune arduous branches of timber and shrubs, generally up to 2 centimetres thick. They're used in gardening, arboriculture, farming, flower arranging, Wood Ranger Power Shears website and nature conservation, where wonderful-scale habitat management is required. Loppers are a bigger, two-handed, long-handled model for branches thicker than pruning Wood Ranger Power Shears website can lower. Cutting plants as part of gardening dates to antiquity in each Europe and East Asian topiary, with specialized scissors used for Chinese penjing and Wood Ranger Power Shears website its offshoots - Japanese bonsai and Vietnamese Hòn Non Bộ - for over a thousand Wood Ranger Power Shears order now Wood Ranger Power Shears shop Wood Ranger Power Shears for sale Shears manual years. In fashionable Europe, scissors only used for gardening work have existed since 1819, when the French aristocrat Antoine Francois Bertrand de Molleville was listed in "Bon Jardinier", as the primary inventor of secateurs. In the course of the late 1890s, secateurs had been bought all over Europe and the US.

Nowadays each professional- and semiprofessional gardener, vintner and fruit farmer uses secateurs. There are three completely different blade designs for pruning shears: anvil, bypass and parrot-beak. Anvil pruners have only one blade, which closes onto a flat surface