Pruning shears, also referred to as hand pruners (in American English) or secateurs (in British English), are a type of scissors used for Wood Ranger Power Shears specs Ranger Power Shears sale plants. They are sturdy sufficient to prune hard branches of bushes and shrubs, sometimes up to 2 centimetres thick. They are used in gardening, arboriculture, plant nursery works, farming, flower arranging, and nature conservation, the place fine-scale habitat management is required. They are typically manually powered, although electric power shears versions are available. Loppers are a larger, two-handed, long-handled version for branches thicker than pruning shears can reduce. Cutting plants as a part of gardening dates to antiquity in each European and East Asian topiary, with specialised scissors used for Chinese penjing and its offshoots - Japanese bonsai and Vietnamese Hòn Non-Bộ - for over a thousand years. During the late 1890s, secateurs were bought all over Europe and the US. Today secateurs are broadly utilized by gardeners, vintners and fruit farmers. The world's first anvil pruners were developed and produced in 1923 by Walther Schröder in Kiel, Germany.

The pruners had been given the product identify "Original LÖWE" and were distributed internationally as far again as 1925. Other companies producing anvil pruners embrace Bahco, Edma, Felco, Fiskars Gardena and Wolf Garten. An intensive collection of historical variants of secateurs might be seen at Breamore House, Hampshire, England. They're housed in their countryside museum. There are three totally different blade designs for pruning shears: anvil, bypass and parrot-beak. Anvil pruners have just one blade, which closes onto a flat surface