Pruners

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

Secateurs (aka pruners, pruning shears) are probably the tool which I use most frequently when out in the garden or up at the allotment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sometimes you need a spade, sometimes pruners, but when you are gardening you really have to look. ❋ Unknown (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 (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. ❋ 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. ❋ Shelly Banjo (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have started to get such a kick from trimming that the past few weekends I've wandered around the yard with pruners in hand, like Edward Scissorhands, looking for stray branches to nip. ❋ Bart Ziegler (2010)

Wear appropriate clothing and shoes, and take water, gloves and hand pruners. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A pair of red-handled Felco pruners had been left on the ground. ❋ Marta Acosta (2010)

I grabbed the red-handled pruners from where I had left them. ❋ Marta Acosta (2010)

When she drives into the clinic early, farmworkers are already walking down the long, parallel rows of apples and cherries and apricots with sharp, purposeful tools—pruners and clippers and saws and scythes. ❋ Carol Wiley Cassella (2010)

Lubricate pruners with light oil to discourage corrosion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Clean pruners with bleach after using them to cut dead or diseased wood, before you use them on healthy canes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So take your pruners, your shovel and go out and have some fun y'all! ❋ Anne Phillips (2010)

I return the Osmocote to the potting shed and run to the back to look for my bypass pruners. ❋ Unknown (2010)