Sometimes a pruning saw is necessary to remove thicker growth.

For this, deft handwork and a sharp pruning saw will be needed.

A pruning saw is also a good idea for cutting any branch over three-quarters of an inch in diameter.

Additionally, Felco has a range of gardening tools including excellent pruning saws.

The curved pruning saw has a thicker curved blade mounted in a handle.

IT will soon be time to prune apple trees and many shrubs and a good pruning saw is an essential tool.

At the ready with loppers and pruning saws, back pockets bulging with secateurs and pliers.

When pruning branches that are just too big for secateurs, the Wisley garden team prefers light and nimble pruning saws.

Moving within tight defensive perimeters set up by the Peruvian police, workers are to cut down coca plants with American-supplied gas-powered pruning saws.

But be careful: you may find yourself falling in love with and ordering unneeded wire topiary forms, pruning saws and collinear hoes.

Make cheques and postal orders payable to: MGN Pruning Saw Offer and put your name and address on the back.

Sharp pruning shears usually serve well for cutting back, but sometimes a pruning saw is needed if the wood of shrubs and small trees is too thick for the shears to cut through.

Send your orders to: Daily Mirror Pruning Saw Offer, Consolidated Marketing, Haland House, York Road, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 9ET.

The Manufactum world (reachable at www.manufactum.com) is one that harks back to grand country houses, with chambermaids and butlers and laundresses and gardeners, and therefore requires Japanese pruning saws and twine in a tin.

He heard the spray of sprinklers, the clang of garden tools, the whisk-whisk of brooms, the rattle of buckets and pots, the ech-zee ech-zee of pruning saws, and the simple grunts of labor (so different in their coloration from the loaded grunts of love).