Bush Tree gardening tool

I might have a go at bush and tree pruning in my new house as I can’t find a professional within the next few weeks. Is there an all round tool that’ll do the job. Preferably a power tool as I’m too impatient for a secateurs.

If you want to do local authority style dumpling pruning (everything cut to a round shape of the same size at the same time regardless of the plant’s actual growth habit), then crack on with a leccy hedge trimmer. If you want to actually promote the plant’s health, encourage flowering etc then find out what each plant needs and use secateurs, loppers or the aforementioned leccy hedge trimmers to do the job properly.

Oh and remember to check trees and large shrubs for nesting birds before starting work, and delay it if necessary.

Probably need to wait until late June / July for pruning anything bushy now although it it the moment to prune plum and cherry trees (just after blossoming).
We have hedge trimmer for hedges (obvs. but good for privet, bushy things and regular trims of hawthorn and beech. Anything thicker then secateurs, loppers and pruning saw (Bahco Laplander I find easiest).
Apart from not disturbing birds check when each needs pruning. Some stuff like plums are really specific, apple and pears are mainly winter pruned and privet seems to bounce back whenever. Some trees like to be pruned hard, others don’t.
Sorry that’s probably little help, go for it, some will work, some won’t but the garden will evolve to your work. Don’t try and do it all in one go. After a few months or years one tree / bush will tell you it’s staying and another will have to go.
Battery hedge trimmer is easier to handle but wired one is more powerful. If wanting to really go for it without pruning saws you’ll need a very fancy petrol job and arms like Arnie to handle it.

oh ok – maybe i’ll try harder and find a gardening firm in the area.

And as my grandmother bemoans, there is quite a difference between a gardener and someone that happens to have a van and a lot of power tools.

It’s quite therapeutic to wander around the garden with a pair of secateurs and a sharp folding saw, like an Opinel, just trimming off obviously dead wood, and letting the plant get on with things. My late step-dad thought that all he needed was the hedge trimmer for anything larger than a daffodil, and he used to attack the Acer I’d bought for my mum years before. It was really sad looking, so I banned him from going near it and during the winter that year spent an entire afternoon with a saw and secateurs cutting out anything brown and dead-looking, and there was a lot!
The difference it made was remarkable, the tree put on a huge spurt of growth, and a lot of new leaf, and it’s colour the next autumn was the best it had ever been. It’s a glorious tree now, a real specimen example of Acer Palmatum ‘Osakazuki’, and a real treasure. I’ve got four little Acer saplings growing at the moment, one I found last year and dug up and potted, and three others I’ve seen, one growing in the big square pot I replanted my little apple tree into, two others in a small plot my late g/f used, so this winter I’ll dig those up and re-pot them, and see how they develop – they’re definitely Acer Palmatum, and can only be from seeds of my big tree, so I’m looking forward to watching them grow and how their autumn colour develops.
The Apple tree was another victim of gardening abuse as well, it had been bought by my parents in a pot, and produced superb apples, sweet/tart, crunchy and incredibly juicy, but it was decided by the ‘head gardener’ that it should go in the garden. So it was yanked out of the pot and dumped into a small hole dug directly below my big silver birch.
It didn’t seem at all happy about that, so I dug it out, cleared the rather solid rootball and put it into a much bigger hole in an open area with compost.
That didn’t help, it produced flowers, but nothing much in the way of apples, and it’s leaves kept turning yellow and dropping off.
It seems the very stony brash soil around here isn’t good for apples, so I bought a big square terracotta pot, hosed out the rootball, and put it into the pot with loads of compost and hoped for the best; a tree specialist I had in to cut my hedges back thought it had bonsai’d itself, because of being in a pot, then the inappropriate soil.
Anyway, it’s looking so much better this year, lots of nice glossy leaves, it’s been producing a decent amount of nicely scented blossoms, so fingers crossed I might get to take my own home-grown apples to work for lunch! Most of the rest of the garden I’m encouraging to grow lots of wild native plants and flowers – the bluebells are starting to come out, I’ve got huge numbers of cowslips that self-seeded from somewhere, same with violets, celandines, primroses, snakes-head fritillaries, which I planted, I had foxgloves last year, so I’m hoping I get new ones from seed in the future, large numbers of snowdrops, which also are spreading, those originated from wild plants. I’ve got ferns, hawthorn and gorse, also aquired from the wild, and I want as many other wild native plants as I can get.
I wasn’t that interested in the garden, but my late partner loved having it, and having space to grow things, so I really learned to appreciate it as much for her, as myself, and now it’s to help keep her memory alive through the plants and flowers she adored – I’ve been given a rose by my brother and sister-in-law, called ‘Just Joey’, which she would have been thrilled to bits with, but sadly will never see it, and some of her ashes will go beneath it.
I’m really hoping for some warm weather so I can sit outside in the evenings with a book and a drink and just enjoy it.

I’m really hoping for some warm weather so I can sit outside in the evenings with a book and a drink and just enjoy it.

Nothing finer. I hope the rose comes along well! My acers are crap, half twigs slightly suspicious my mum potted them in regular compost so my try digging them out of the pots and getting acid in there.