Comments on: Prunettes – the Wonder Women of Gardening

By: Maria Bauer

Maria Bauer — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:21:52 +0000

Hello. We are an all female crew that does Hand Pruning. We are called Family Tree hand pruning service and garden maintenance. We service the South shore of Long Island New York and we do not Shear ANYTHING. We also love that we make our own schedule so that we too can be home with our family’s. It’s a wonderful career. I wish more people understood the importance of hand pruning over shearing for the health of thier shrubs.

Happy Pruning fellow clippers.

Maria Bauer
Family Tree Hand Pruning Service

By: Kathy, Washington Gardener

Kathy, Washington Gardener — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:16:07 +0000

Ijust got a pair of ratchet pruners and have to say they are pretty nifty as I’m the ‘hack and slash’ queen out there and it is a very satisfying afternoon of soring cleaning when I come in and look outside to see neat piles of pruned sticks from all those overgrown shrubs.

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:37:32 +0000

Oh, I want to be a Prunette! Sounds like fun.

By: Doug Green

Doug Green — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:51:49 +0000

My Felco pruners were welded right to my hip for over 20 years in the nursery business. Then a Fiskars rep gave me a pair of his small ones to play with. I switched and now the Felco are a reminder of a old times while the Fiskars stay by the back door.

I know own several different types of this company’s pruning systems (the long handled ones are fantastic for getting into the middle of old roses)

So with arthritic or older hands (rapidly approaching age-alert here!) a ratchet type of pruner would be a blessing.

Susan – what a whuss you are! – an hour in the morning! How *do* you ever last that long? )

Doug

By: Pam/Digging

Pam/Digging — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:01:33 +0000

Thanks for an interesting post, Susan. That’s a great business idea.