How To Use Secateurs In A Sentence
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As native shrubs finish flowering, snip the dead flowers off with the secateurs.
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Snips are ideal for dead-heading and secateurs for trimming branches up to 2cm, but thicker branches need loppers.
The Sun
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We tend to use the same few tools spade, fork, rake, trowel, secateurs and watering can throughout our gardening careers.
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Use loppers or secateurs and cut back last year's growth to within just two buds from the main framework.
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Inside, there's a brush, a mini shovel for filling pots, a grubber for weeding and a pair of secateurs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Under a pile of mothy tea-cosies I found a pair of secateurs returned from the ironmongers with a brown label attached, dated 1956 and inscribed "Not Worth Repair".
Hancox: All under one roof
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Small hand trowels, secateurs or a new pair of gardening gloves are also favourites.
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Aunt Amelia-Mother-" She put the secateurs down and turned to face me.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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Gladys waved the secateurs in a threatening arc towards the upstairs window.
TICKLED PINK
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If there is a moment, I still get my spades, forks and secateurs and go out and do some work.
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Just inside the gates, an overalled gardener with a gentle face is poking insincerely at the dripping rhododendrons with a pair of secateurs.
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Blunt secateurs would be a more apt description, only less useful.
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He removed his rucksack from his back, and took out his secateurs and his hedge clippers.
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Once inside with your haul, recut the ends with secateurs and pop them into water for a good drink.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now until the end of the July is the time to get out the secateurs and start pruning those roses.
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Although they are largely pruned with secateurs (in the older, more traditional Kyoto style), the pompoms grow all the more densely when pruned mechanically with shears (in the Tokyo style).
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Sprawling mats of rock roses (helianthemum) need the lank flower stems snipped away in handfuls, with secateurs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Make sure all tools are in perfect working order, for instance it's much easier to prune with sharp secateurs.
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Rose picked up her secateurs and had soon filled the old gardening trug with her favourite off white old roses.
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