Garden Tools
Hunters Garden Centre has the right gardening tools for all your garden needs, from the largest garden projects to the smallest tasks.
We are your one-stop garden shop, carrying all you need for a sunny Spring day in your garden. If you are not sure how to use the tools, please speak to one of our staff members who can demonstrate for you.
See below for some of the common tools and supplies we carry. Keep reading for practical pruning tips for the trees and bushes in your garden too.

Best Garden Tools for Gardening in 2022
Here are the top must-have gardening tools and supplies for indoor and outdoor gardening, available at Hunters Garden Centre in Surrey and Vancouver.
PRACTICAL PRUNING TIPS
How To Prune Your Trees, Shrubs, Roses and Fruit Trees
Proper pruning is essential to improve how your plants grow, flower, fruit, resist disease, and how long they live. This information will explain the practical procedures for pruning a majority of your garden plants. For fruit trees, shade trees, and flowering trees follow these four basic rules:
- Remove all weak and diseased branches
- Remove all branches growing towards the center
- Remove the weakest of crossing branches
- Remove the weakest of parallel branches
You should remove all twigs and branches at the intersection with another branch with a clean cut leaving no stubs. You should seal all cuts over one inch in diameter with a pruning paste or spray.
Fruit Trees
Most of the fruit trees sold in our garden centre are two years old. Apples are grown on a dwarf root stock. Cherries, peaches, pears, plums, and pears are semi-dwarf. The main branches of these trees have already formed. Proper pruning will help you select the rest of the main branches over the next two to five years. When the leader branch reaches eight to nine feet it should be topped at a branch node to leave to top of the tree open. You should prune your fruit trees each year in winter or early spring, when the tree is dormant.
Apple Trees: Follow the four basic rules above
Pear Trees: They grow fairly vertical and attention must be paid to ensure that the center remains open
Peaches and Sour Cherries: These trees have fruit buds on new as well as old wood. Occasional thinning back to a strong lateral branch promotes vigor in these trees.
Sweet Cherries: Once the main branches are established a light thinning is all that the tree requires.
Other Trees
Flowering Trees: You should prune these trees similar to fruit trees but thin them lightly every year
Shade Trees: Every variety of tree has its own particular twig pattern and shape. You should thin the tree according to the four basic rules. Be sure to be conscious to maintain the original shape of the tree.
Flowering Shrubs
Shrubs that flower on OLD wood (ex. Forsythia, Spiraea, Weigela, etc). Most of the flowering shrubs in your garden are in this group. New shoots grow from the ground level each year. Flowers grow on two, three, and four-year old wood. You should prune these plants only after they have finished flowering. You should prune the oldest growth, more than four years old, off at the ground level.
- Remove weak and diseased branched
- Remove all shoots over four years old at the ground level
Shrubs that flower on NEW wood (ex. Roses, Buddleia, PeeGee Hydrangea, etc)
This group of plants produces flowers only on new wood. You should prune these plants in the spring (March or April) by heading back.
- Remove weak and diseased branches
- Remove branches growing towards the center
- Remove crossing branches
- Cut back all remaining branches to between 10 cm to 30 cm (4-12 inches)
Evergreens
Broad Leaf Evergreens: require very light pruning, primarily to improve their shape. These plants most often bloom on mature wood and you can prune them after they flower.
Conifers: every conifer has an individual shape; tall, medium, or dwarf; upright or spreading. Hand pruners are excellent for shortening the branches of dwarf evergreens and small shrubs. You should use shears, or a pruning saw for larger shrubs and trees. Pines should have their new shoots pruned in half in June.
Hedges
Hedges should be pruned in spring. They should be pruned so that their tops are narrower than the bottom to let more sun and light into the lower parts of the hedge.
Small Fruits
Raspberries: Prune in August, cutting out old canes at the ground level and newer canes to about 1.5 to 2 meters (5 to 6 feet)
Grapes: Select a main stem and prune lateral stems back to two buds in winter
Currants: These bloom and fruit on old wood. Prune out the oldest canes in winter.

PRACTICAL PRUNING TIPS
How To Prune Your Trees, Shrubs, Roses and Fruit Trees
Proper pruning is essential to improve how your plants grow, flower, fruit, resist disease, and how long they live. This information will explain the practical procedures for pruning a majority of your garden plants. For fruit trees, shade trees, and flowering trees follow these four basic rules:
- Remove all weak and diseased branches
- Remove all branches growing towards the center
- Remove the weakest of crossing branches
- Remove the weakest of parallel branches
You should remove all twigs and branches at the intersection with another branch with a clean cut leaving no stubs. You should seal all cuts over one inch in diameter with a pruning paste or spray.
Fruit Trees
Most of the fruit trees sold in our garden centre are two years old. Apples are grown on a dwarf root stock. Cherries, peaches, pears, plums, and pears are semi-dwarf. The main branches of these trees have already formed. Proper pruning will help you select the rest of the main branches over the next two to five years. When the leader branch reaches eight to nine feet it should be topped at a branch node to leave to top of the tree open. You should prune your fruit trees each year in winter or early spring, when the tree is dormant.
Apple Trees: Follow the four basic rules above
Pear Trees: They grow fairly vertical and attention must be paid to ensure that the center remains open
Peaches and Sour Cherries: These trees have fruit buds on new as well as old wood. Occasional thinning back to a strong lateral branch promotes vigor in these trees.
Sweet Cherries: Once the main branches are established a light thinning is all that the tree requires.
Other Trees
Flowering Trees: You should prune these trees similar to fruit trees but thin them lightly every year
Shade Trees: Every variety of tree has its own particular twig pattern and shape. You should thin the tree according to the four basic rules. Be sure to be conscious to maintain the original shape of the tree.
Flowering Shrubs
Shrubs that flower on OLD wood (ex. Forsythia, Spiraea, Weigela, etc). Most of the flowering shrubs in your garden are in this group. New shoots grow from the ground level each year. Flowers grow on two, three, and four-year old wood. You should prune these plants only after they have finished flowering. You should prune the oldest growth, more than four years old, off at the ground level.
- Remove weak and diseased branched
- Remove all shoots over four years old at the ground level
Shrubs that flower on NEW wood (ex. Roses, Buddleia, PeeGee Hydrangea, etc)
This group of plants produces flowers only on new wood. You should prune these plants in the spring (March or April) by heading back.
- Remove weak and diseased branches
- Remove branches growing towards the center
- Remove crossing branches
- Cut back all remaining branches to between 10 cm to 30 cm (4-12 inches)
Evergreens
Broad Leaf Evergreens: require very light pruning, primarily to improve their shape. These plants most often bloom on mature wood and you can prune them after they flower.
Conifers: every conifer has an individual shape; tall, medium, or dwarf; upright or spreading. Hand pruners are excellent for shortening the branches of dwarf evergreens and small shrubs. You should use shears, or a pruning saw for larger shrubs and trees. Pines should have their new shoots pruned in half in June.
Hedges
Hedges should be pruned in spring. They should be pruned so that their tops are narrower than the bottom to let more sun and light into the lower parts of the hedge.
Small Fruits
Raspberries: Prune in August, cutting out old canes at the ground level and newer canes to about 1.5 to 2 meters (5 to 6 feet)
Grapes: Select a main stem and prune lateral stems back to two buds in winter
Currants: These bloom and fruit on old wood. Prune out the oldest canes in winter.

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