Pruning Wood Ranger Power Shears warranty, additionally referred to as hand pruners (in American English), or hedge trimming shears secateurs, are a kind of scissors for use on plants. They are sturdy sufficient to prune onerous branches of trees and shrubs, generally up to two centimetres thick. They are used in gardening, arboriculture, farming, flower arranging, and nature conservation, where wonderful-scale habitat management is required. Loppers are a larger, two-handed, long-dealt with version for branches thicker than pruning hedge trimming shears can cut. Cutting plants as a part of gardening dates to antiquity in each Europe 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. In modern 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 hedge trimming shears of secateurs. In the course of the late 1890s, secateurs had been bought all over Europe and the US.

Nowadays every pro- and semiprofessional gardener, vintner and fruit farmer makes use of secateurs. There are three different blade designs for pruning electric power shears: anvil, bypass and parrot-beak. Anvil pruners have just one blade, which closes onto a flat surface