I am always keeping a eye out for decent products for my own garden — even if they are just for my wish list. Over the course of the next few weeks, I’ll be highlighting a series of products that might fit in my garden — or yours! — Douglas

Fiskars Garden Tools

Some of my favorite tools, I own both the PowerGear Pruner/Lopper and the PowerGear Bypass pruners mentioned below. I’ve also included a couple of other Fiskers tools that I have on my own Wish List. I believe Fiskars still has a lifetime warrantee on breakage. I once snapped the blade on my PowerGear Lopper and the local home store replaced it with no questions asked.

I have found these tools to be great workhorses in the garden. As most gardener’s do I often use them on stems and branches far outside their rated size. (I think we all do it every so often when we are trying to get the work done) Except for the blade break when I, stupidly, twisted the lopper trying to free them from a branch, they have survived everything I could throw at them.