Garden Accessories

Pruning and cutting tools for grounds work: Fiskars bypass pruners, loppers, hedge shears, pruning saws and extendable tree pruners, plus stainless utility scissors. Bypass and anvil are the distinction worth getting right — a bypass blade passes the anvil like scissors and makes a clean cut on living wood, an anvil head crushes against a flat and is for dead wood only. Cut capacity is stated as a maximum diameter and it means green wood at that diameter; dry or hard wood needs a bigger tool or a saw. A 28 in. lopper gives the leverage that hand pruners cannot, and an extendable pole pruner keeps you off a ladder, which is worth more than the reach it advertises.