If you’ve hung around North Coast Gardening for any length of time, you know that I’m a sucker for tools that do multiple jobs well.
This hedging shear is my go-to tool for cutting back perennials in fall and winter, pruning ornamental grasses and sword ferns in winter, and deadheading heathers and other plants that respond well to shearing. Yeah, you can also use it for hedging your boxwood into the shape of a rooster, if you wish. You gotta have a little fun in life, right?
You can see how it works in this video:
The best thing about the Fiskars Powergear Hedger is the metal used and the coating on the metal, both of which help the shears cut cleanly and stay sharp, and the gears that allow it to cut through much thicker stems than most pruning shears do (if you’ve tried using regular hedging shears to cut back perennials, you know it isn’t all that effective – the gear on this one makes all the difference!).
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I love Fiskars and this tool looks cool. I personally prefer the extra control I get from smaller hand-held pruners for things like lavender and heathers… even if it does take way more chops (ideal for me as home gardener, but probably not if I still had clients). You know, I think I can do 90% of all my gardening with three tools!
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ohhh, nice! My trusty ol’ felco’s are usually in my pocket… but I’ll have to give those a try, too.
Perfect timing! I like to use “hedgers” the same way you do, but YOUR tool looks so superior to what I have. I think I’ll treat myself to these Fiskars soon so I’ll be ready for a more efficient spring clean-up. Thanks for the tip!
You have misled your readers.
I purchased this product based on your recommendation and I am very unhappy with it.
I tried to trim a small cedar hedge with it and it simply does not cut through fine foliage on a shrub or softbranches. This is a faulty product and I intend to report its shortcomings on my own blog.
Hi Allan,
I am so sorry you didn’t like your shears! I am certainly not trying to mislead anyone – I have four pair of those shears (I have employees) and I just love them, mostly for trimming back perennials and grasses. I have never trimmed a cedar hedge with them so I can’t comment as to why it’s not working on your hedge. But it does work for me, for cutting back perennials and grasses, and heathers, boxwood, privet… those are just a few things I’ve pruned with mine in the past few months.
If you bought the shears from my OpenSky shop, OpenSky has a one year return policy – they even pay return shipping. So if you did buy them from me, please return them, and I’m very sorry you don’t like them as much as I do!
I’ll look forward to reading your blog post about it.
Also – If you didn’t get the item from my shop, I believe Fiskars itself has a lifetime replacement policy. It is very odd to me that they aren’t cutting well. I wonder whether you got a faulty pair? If you didn’t buy from my OpenSky shop, you might try contacting fiskars and seeing what they think. They might be able to replace it with a new pair, if you can’t return them to where ever you bought them from.
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