secateurs recommendation please

[mckenzie]

I am very new to gardening, having up until now left it to DH or paid someone to do it. However, I'm trying and actually starting to enjoy it now. But we badly need some new secateurs and there seem to be so many to choose from, I'm a tad bewildered with what to buy.

Any recommendations please?

TIA

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Felco or Wolf are supposed to be very good. Depending on what you want to cut, you also need to decide between the type. ie bypass (like scissors) or anvil - anvil is better for dead wood but bypass better for cutting flowers or pruning live wood.

You can get ones for left handed people, smaller ones for laydees with small delicate hands etc

But you can't really go wrong with Felco (hence the price!)

thanks very much Escallonia. I shall splash out on the Felco ones (early mothers day present to myself!)

Do splash out and get the leather holster for the Felco secateurs. all the pros carry their secateurs in holsters, and once you've tried it, you can see exactly why. Not only can you feel like a gun slinger, it does make you much more effective in the garden.

Go for 'bypass' secateurs. Not 'anvil'. Felco will have both styles.
I had a lovely pair which my father bought for me but I sadly lost them.
My husband gave me some new Alan Titchmarsh ones for christmas and they are great and were probably a quarter of the price.

::Plans to ask for Felco holster for Mother's Day, to channel her inner Annie Oakley::

thanks guys. I shall drop hints for secateurs and a holster and some gloves too. Just got to hope that my gardening skills live up to the expectations of my snazzy equipment