Pruning shears, also referred to as hand pruners (in American English), or secateurs, are a sort of scissors for use on plants. They're strong sufficient to prune hard branches of trees and shrubs, sometimes up to 2 centimetres thick. They are used in gardening, arboriculture, farming, flower arranging, and nature conservation, where fine-scale habitat administration is required. Loppers are a larger, two-handed, long-handled version for branches thicker than pruning brushless motor shears can lower. Cutting plants as a part of gardening dates to antiquity in both Europe and East Asian topiary, with specialized scissors used for Chinese penjing and its offshoots - Japanese bonsai and Vietnamese Hòn Non Bộ - for over a thousand years. In fashionable Europe, scissors solely used for gardening work have existed since 1819, when the French aristocrat Antoine Francois Bertrand de Molleville was listed in "Bon Jardinier", as the primary inventor of secateurs. During the late 1890s, secateurs were sold throughout Europe and the US.

Nowadays every pro- and semiprofessional gardener, vintner and fruit farmer uses secateurs. There are three totally different blade designs for pruning Wood Ranger Power Shears features: anvil, bypass and parrot-beak. Anvil pruners have only one blade, which closes onto a flat surface