A beautifully manicured garden or lawn can be truly an attractive place of solace and a crowning jewel of the home.
This can be achieved by seriously taking care of your garden or lawn.
You can have it done by professional landscaper or gardener or do it yourself.
If you have the tools and the passion to trim your plants by yourself then some handy tools can make your job a lot easier.
The first and most important tool you would need is a good hedge trimmer.
Hedge trimmers are generally powered by gas, electric or most recently battery.
Using mains electric or batteries is a great alternative to the gas powered hedge trimmer which are noisy and can be smelly.
Electric hedge trimmers are without a doubt cleaner than the gas powered ones,whether they are a safe alternative is open to some debate.
If you use gas powered garden tools at least you don't have to worry about tripping over leads but you do have the risks that are always associated with petrol.
The main disadvantage with any electrical tool is that it needs to be plugged in to an electrical source.
Of course that problem has been fixed recently by the advent of batteries that have more power and longer lasting charges.
The improvements in battery technology have allowed huge changes to be made in the garden power tools market.
Using a battery to power something as large as a hedge trimmer may seem strange, and until recently the batteries just weren't powerful enough, which left you with just two choices of how to power your tools, gas or mains lead.
Using an electric hedge trimmer, either a mains powered or battery powered model is a earth friendly decision, and if you are looking for a way to be carbon neutral then you could even go so far as to get a small solar panel rig to charge the battery from.