Highlights
- Sharp, well-made secateurs give clean cuts that help plants heal faster and stay disease-free.
- Poor-quality tools crush stems, tire your hands, rust quickly and cost you more in the long run.
- Our secateurs use SK5 blades, smooth pivots and two grip settings for different hands and jobs.
- Every tool is tested in real gardens and backed by a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
- A big, friendly gardening community is there to help with pruning tips, care guides and support.
Your hands shouldn’t be shaking in frustration after each session, which is why your choice of garden secateurs matters. At Aussie Gardener, you can find these pruning shears and a wide range of other garden instruments online!
The right secateurs for gardening make pruning tasks easier and more precise.
A good pair helps plants heal faster and saves you from fighting with thick stems.
Sharp blades cut through stems cleanly, rather than squashing them. A clean slice also helps the plant heal faster and lowers the chance of pests or disease getting in. This kind of precision really matters on thicker or woody branches, because it stops tearing and damage. And as a bonus, you will not have to squeeze as hard, so you stay happier on the tougher jobs.
A bad pair of secateurs brings a bunch of problems.
Some garden secateurs look fine on day one, but if the blades are low quality, they go blunt fast and start crushing soft stems instead of giving you a neat cut. Awkward or stiff handles with bad ergonomics also make your fingers ache. Longer pruning sessions feel like hard work, even if you have gardening gloves.
Poorly made garden hand tools often skip corrosion coatings, too. This means the metal rusts and wears out sooner. At the end of the day, choosing more premium and precision pruners gives you sharper cuts for longer and a gardening experience you’ll enjoy.
Aussie Gardener secateurs combine strength, precision and comfort.
The SK5 stainless-steel blades slice cleanly through stems and branches.
Our garden secateurs use blades renowned for their edge retention and staying sharp, with the accurate cuts minimising stem damage. Because the steel is high grade and corrosion resistant, the metal holds up over lots of pruning. Compared to cheaper garden scissors that dull quickly, our stainless steel secateurs let you worry less about frequent sharpening.
Two opening settings mean you can switch between a small and large grip in seconds.
The adjustable opening feature makes the same pair of garden secateurs feel comfortable, whether you have smaller hands or a stronger grip. That bit of flexibility makes it easier for different people, and the household won’t have to rely on a secateur set when they’re working on veggie planters or other areas.
During bigger pruning tasks, choosing the setting that suits you also takes pressure off your fingers, without losing any cutting power.
The smooth action and balanced weight make pruning feel easy.
An ergonomic setup like this helps you stay in control. Because the pivot has been engineered to reduce friction, the blades glide instead of grabbing or jamming. The weight is also nicely balanced, which means your wrist isn’t fighting the tool the whole time.
We stand behind every product with quality and care.
Every tool is tested properly before it even earns a place in our range.
Our team makes sure to try all the products out in real gardens to make sure the gear holds up. For example, our garden secateurs and weeding tool options are used on actual branches and soil to check their power, sharpness and how comfy they are to use. If something feels flimsy, wears out too quickly or feels weird to use, it simply doesn’t make the cut. That way, you see tools that handle regular gardening.
Our 30 Day Money Back Guarantee gives you time to try it at home.
No matter if you’re considering compact secateurs for small gardens or bigger plots, you can see how this tool handles real garden work on your own plants. Use them on roses, shrubs or fruit trees and experience the features first-hand. If, for any reason, your pruning scissors do not perform as promised, you can send them back for a refund.
Aside from these hand pruners, you’ll also be pleased to know that this promise also covers must-haves like DeWalt lawn mowers and beyond.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Is pruning the same as weeding?
Not quite. Weeding is about using a weeder to pull out whole unwanted plants that are stealing water, light and nutrients from the plants you actually want to grow. Pruning with garden secateurs is more selective since you’re trimming back parts of a plant you want to keep, usually to tidy it up, remove dead or diseased bits or encourage better fruiting and flowering.
Why are my garden secateurs not cutting properly?
Blades that are blunt, nicked or slightly out of alignment will start crushing stems instead of giving that clean snip. Dirt, sap and a bit of rust can also slow things down. Using garden secateurs on branches that are too thick for them can bend the mechanism as well.
Still, even for affordable pruning shears in Australia, a quick clean, sharpen and alignment can make sure the blades meet properly. Remember, simple maintenance usually helps with longevity or brings an item back to life, be it secateurs or a weeder for garden work.
What angle should you prune at?
A good rule of thumb is to cut at about a 45-degree angle, sloping away from the bud or main stem. That little adjustment helps rainwater run off instead of sitting on the cut. Diseases now find it harder to get in, and the plant will callus faster for regrowth.
More than 150,000 gardeners have turned to us for their gardening needs.
We at Aussie Gardener have already helped hundreds of thousands of people get more out of their gardens. In fact, more than 250,000 orders, from garden secateurs all the way to black bird netting, have been delivered across the country. That is why so many people look to us as Australia’s largest and most trusted online gardening store.
A lot of those customers have also joined our free community, where you can chat with other gardeners, swap ideas and pick up real-world tips from people growing in the same climate as you.
We’re a welcoming space that makes the process feel easy and fun, so buy garden tools online now!