Welcome to Garden Stories. Today I’m talking about the single best tool I’ve ever owned: my grandmother’s 30-year-old Felco 2 pruners. She earned her Master Gardener certificate and spent decades pruning lilacs, hydrangeas and white pine with those sharp blades, always cleaning, oiling and sharpening them.

When she died, I inherited her pruners. I’d used the smaller Felco 6, but her Felco 2 offered a full one-inch cutting capacity, contoured grips, longer handles and “buy-it-for-life” credibility.

The article calls it “a perfect pair of pruners” and notes, “The Felco 2 may be the last set of pruners you ever own.” Whether I’m pruning tomato shoots or tackling woody coneflower stalks, I reach for these trusty shears.

Even after 30 years, they’re easy to repair with replacement parts and exploded diagrams online. They’re more than a tool—they’re a reminder of the true inheritance she left me: a love for gardens and an enduring will to tend them.
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