When I joined a national garden club several ages ago, my thank you gift was a shiny bypass pruner with green handles. It took only a few clippings before the blades dulled and shredded plant ...

Bypass hand pruners, designed to cut branches less than 1 inch wide, often snip more than stems. They slice rope, twine and even chicken wireor at least, the ones in our test did. Unfair? Maybebu ...