A good hedge trimmer can be a blessing, saving you time and preventing aching arms. Buy a bad one, though, and you'll be left with backbreaking work and poorly trimmed, uneven hedges. We test each ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Hedges create an attractive natural boundary between properties, walkways, and drives—but only if you ...

Two millennia ago, the Roman writer Columella described the vintoria falx, a six-part, specialized pruning tool for grapes. What a stir that tool must have caused among Roman grape growers when it was ...

CORVALLIS – For a hedge, arborvitae has a place. It’s tall, skinny, evergreen, low-maintenance and cheap. “Some people look down on arborvitae, but it fits in places that other things can’t,” said ...

Black Friday often sees great deals on power tools and garden gadgets, but shoppers keen to tackle their hedges this winter are rushing to Gtech's 'almost half price' autumn sale, which has hefty ...

NICE article on landscape planting [“Hedges Without Edges,” Feb. 23]. As a landscape architect I can only hope that it changes attitudes. In my experience the reasons that hedges have edges is because ...

Since 1914, people in Jersey have picked up sickles and strimmers to cut the hedges around their properties. "Branchage" is a legal requirement designed to keep roads as safe as possible, but ...