RHS Burgon & Ball Lawn Shears and Boxwood Shears

This Burgon and Ball steel grass and boxwood shear is a flexible, lightweight, manoeuvrable, and precise cutting tool designed for trimming grass and cleanly cutting tender stems, grass, and not-too-thick green wood. Made from hardened steel, it will satisfy even the most demanding gardeners. It is perfect for maintaining boxwood and topiaries, light pruning, and refining lawn edges!

The English deserve recognition for being experts in gardening (especially grass). Promesse de Fleurs has chosen the English company Burgon & Ball for the quality of its materials and its almost three-century-old steel manufacturing methods. The company has been working with steel in Sheffield since 1730, initially with a solid steel sheep shears patent. The production of garden shears and tools quickly surpassed that of sheep shears, but the Royal Horticultural Society officially approved Burgon & Ball stainless steel tools - probably the ultimate award in gardening.

The steel used for Burgon & Ball tools is alloyed with carbon to give it strength and with chrome to prevent rust. It's an exact balance that needs to be found between chrome and carbon, different for each part of the tool. The heat treatment allows for precisely the right hardness of the steel for each tool. Too hard and the metal can break or chip, not hard enough and it will bend or lose its sharpness. The thickness of the steel used also depends on the tool. The thickness of the steel affects the weight, so it's also a balance that the Burgon & Ball company, with almost 300 years of experience, has validated to ensure that its tools are both practical and enjoyable to use.