After the harvest, the trees must be topped, using a device that looks like a giant whirligig, and pruned, with what appears to be large mechanized hedge shears.

Manual hedge trimmers (sometimes also called hedge shears, or hedge clippers) are designed as large scissors or large pruning shears.

Specifically designed for professional manicuring and sculpting of shrubs and topiaries, these hedge shears are razor sharp, super light, and built for continued use.

Garden set includes: deluxe hedge shears, standard bypass lopper, 8 in.

Garden set includes: deluxe hedge shears, standard by pass lopper, 8" by pass pruner and 8" anvil pruner.

If people were reluctant to buy $30 hedge shears anywhere that required typing in the letters "www," why would they buy an $800 Chanel skirt online?

Yet this sleek, lightweight pair of hedge shears is ergonomically designed to be easier to wield and inflict less wrist and arm fatigue.

Not that they were likely to give him the things he needed: hedge shears, trowels, pruning knives.

Still, this forgiving nature is no excuse for the butchering that is often seen when, for instance, forsythia is given an annual haircut with hedge shears.

The newest families are Indians and Taiwanese, and she explains about garbage pickups, about the block association or just lends them her hedge shears.