Hedge Help- Are your hedges looming over your head?

Are your hedges looming over your head?  Have you tripped over the wretched roots that the weeds have strung across your garden path?  Are the neighbours complaining about your landscaping-gone-wild?  Do not despair, for help is on the way in the form of the versatile and wonderfully efficient adjustable telescopic hedge trimmers on the market today at a surprisingly low cost.

These multi-purpose tools come in varying sizes and weights, with either petrol or electric power packs.  Depending on the size of your yard or garden and the condition of the landscape in general, you may opt for a lightweight cordless tool for trimming and edging walkways with minimal fuss.  However, if the landscape is escaping its boundaries on all sides, and/or if the size of things is just too much for a ‘lightweight’, you may feel that you need a chainsaw.

Whatever the situation, you can find the tool that will do the job with ease and speed, and with little strain on your back or your wallet.  Several well-known and respected companies such as Eckman, Nutool and Gtech offer a variety of such devices, geared to the needs of everyone from the weekend gardener to the professional landscape architect.

For smartening up the bushy top of a hedge that stands higher than you do, check out the long-reach trimmer with adjustable head that lets you stay on the ground and neatly trim the top off an 8-footer.  If you’re contending with old growth and thick stems and branches, you can get a trimmer that converts into a chainsaw to let you whack through 3-inch thick branches with ease.

Many of the products available weigh only three or four pounds, and the heavier petrol-powered tools are equipped with straps or harness to make it easy to carry them wherever you need to work.  Whether petrol or electrically powered, most of the better tools can operated for 40 to 50 minutes without recharging or filling.