Secateur madness

Me! I'm lethal with secateurs. Nothing survives.

I used to be like that when cutting DD's fringe!!!

Love my secateurs and have been busy this afternoon cutting shrubs down to fence height - any higher and I can't reach to tidy them up.
DH insists that all trimmings are cut into 2" lengths so they don't take up so much space and will flow from the bag at the tip. Consequently I think very hard before 'going to town' as the tidying up takes ages!

?mine. I’m thinking of getting another pair….one for each hand ?

Yes. I can see my shrubs quivering as I approach and it's never windy. Past experience I guess!

I have three pairs! Two pairs I really must get rid of because the handles jam on every cut and don't spring back open. They are my favourite gardening tool, in fact I will put a new pair on my birthday list next month.

Love a pair of secateurs. ?
Extremely upset when my pink handle ones went to garden tool heaven ?
Spring and autumn no bush is safe in our garden
Including my Topiary squirrel

Also love a paint spray can

I too have been busy with my secateurs on shrubs today. I have 3 prs and I brought them in for a clean up and oil. I also have my favourite pair that no longer springs open when I use it so I the bin it went.

In total agreement! I sort out the world when I have my secateurs in my hand, any thing that has annoyed me takes on the persona of a branch and off it goes.
No wonder gardening is good for the soul!

Recommendations please, mine sorely need replacing. Thank you.

I like these best -WolfGarten aluminium blade professional secateurs. It’s a very personal thing though, you need to feel them in your hand to decide what suits you. It always puts me off when they are in those impenetrable plastic packs.

you need to feel them in your hand to decide what suits you
Good point.

I love love love chopping and pruning so much I have decided to come back as a tree surgeon.

Jaxjacky

Recommendations please, mine sorely need replacing. Thank you.

The Rolls Royce of the secateur world are Felco. A bit expensive but robust and long lasting. If they do get a bit jaded you can send them off to Felco with £25 and they come back as good as new. I have 2 pairs and would be very upset to lose them.

The only problem I can see with them is if you have a weak grip. I don't know if they do a version for people with, say, arthritis.

(I've actually got 4 pairs of secateurs but the Felcos are the best)

I get snip happy, too.

I have found ratchet Secataurs much easier to use in my arthritic hands and I have a pair given by my late mil that also can be adjusted from large to small hands.

Thanks, no arthritis and I have a birthday looming, perfect excuse.
Your comments above made me thing of Edward Scissorhands!

Think..

I inherited a very large leggy lavender when I moved into this bungalow and have had great fun using my secateurs on the spent blooms today. I didn't have the 'garden bin' facility at my old house but have paid for it here, lovely to put the cuttings straight into it.

I went mad with my secateurs today too. For thicker pieces I
love my Bosch electric ones.

I'm a demon with secateurs or loppers.

Your roses will be fine but I'm not so sure about conifers!

So glad to hear that I am not alone! Though I do fear for the gardens of Britain!!?

I need a couple of trees and a few shrubs pruned but I'm not touching them. Not sure what to do and will be round to my friendly gardener to ask for a price for doing the jobs.
I have no problem taking out a few small branches but anything which might ruin a lovely plant I keep well away from.

I lashed out on long handled loppers - I keep them near the back door and constantly find something I can chop off! I really am dangerous once I’m on a mission with them!

Yep, that's me too Lizbethann55. The plants tremble and shrink back when they see me coming! I love my secateurs, loppers, tree saws and hedge trimmers. DH groans at the amount of 'garden waste' I create in just a few hours. Fortunately we have a chipper though I wish I'd got a more powerful one. As I write this I'm looking out at the hedge that needs cutting back before the birds start nesting. But it's safe for the moment - it's cold out there and I've got some sewing to finish!