About this product
Full description
Every gardener loses secateurs. It's one of the universal experiences of gardening — you set them down for a moment, walk twenty paces, and never see them again. They turn up six months later, wholly rusted, under a pile of leaves in the corner of the border. The Burgon & Ball FloraBrite® Fluorescent Bypass Secateurs solve that problem properly. Bright fluorescent handles — sunny yellow or vivid pink — that stand out against foliage, soil and grass at a distance, plus a reflective detail that catches the light in low-light or dusk conditions. The award-winning design that means you actually find your secateurs when you put them down.
From Sheffield toolmakers Burgon & Ball, who've been making proper garden tools since 1730. RHS-endorsed — chosen by the Royal Horticultural Society as one of their officially recommended tools — with the full 10-year guarantee against manufacturing defects.
Why fluorescent handles
The fluorescent design isn't gimmick — it's properly considered practical design that solves a real, recurring gardener's problem:
- Easy to find against foliage — the bright pink or yellow stands out against green growth, dark soil and dappled light. A pair of secateurs set down on top of a hosta leaf is visible from across the garden
- Easy to find against grass — the colours contrast strongly with lawn green
- Easy to find against soil — high contrast against brown and dark earth tones
- Visible in low light — reflective detail in the handle design catches the light at dusk or in shaded areas. Particularly useful for evening gardening sessions in mid-summer when the light fades suddenly
- Award-winning — the FloraBrite design has won industry recognition for solving the gardener's perennial misplacement problem
If you've ever bought three pairs of secateurs over the years because you keep losing them, this is the design that breaks the cycle. The bright colours look striking on the potting bench too — properly visual rather than the muted greens and blacks of traditional garden tools.
The tool itself — properly serious
Behind the bright handles is genuine Burgon & Ball secateur quality:
- Fully hardened and tempered high-carbon steel blade — delivers long-lasting sharpness and clean cuts with each snip. The steel is heat-treated for the proper hardness that keeps an edge through years of use
- Bypass mechanism — for cutting living stems and branches. Up to 2.5cm in diameter cutting capacity, which covers all the common pruning tasks (roses, shrubs, soft fruit, herbaceous stems, fruit tree thin growth)
- Robust alloy handles — the structural strength is in the alloy beneath the bright coating; light enough for comfortable extended use, strong enough for proper pruning force
- Soft ergonomic grip — cushioned coating reduces hand fatigue through long pruning sessions. Notably more comfortable than hard-plastic-handled budget secateurs
- Rubber cushion stop — between the handles, absorbs the impact at each cut. Reduces jarring on the hand, which matters significantly over an afternoon of pruning
- Secure locking mechanism — keeps the blades safely closed when not in use; properly important for safety and for keeping the cutting edge protected
- Suitable for medium to large hands — balanced feel rather than fiddly
What you'll use them for
- Rose pruning — the headline use; the bypass action gives clean cuts that heal cleanly
- Shrub pruning — soft-stemmed and woody shrubs alike, up to the 2.5cm capacity
- Soft fruit pruning — raspberries, currants, blueberries
- Fruit tree maintenance — thin growth and water shoots; for thicker cuts you'll need loppers
- Herbaceous deadheading and tidying — soft stems and spent flowering heads
- Cut-flower harvesting — the precise bypass action gives clean cuts that hold well in the vase
- General garden tidy-ups — the everyday cutting work that fills a gardening afternoon
The bypass mechanism (as opposed to anvil) cuts cleanly on living tissue without crushing the stem — properly important for plant health. Use this on green growth and living stems; use loppers or a saw on thick dead wood.
Choose your colour
- Sunny yellow — the highest visibility against green foliage. The "I'll never lose these again" choice
- Vivid pink — the slightly softer aesthetic, still highly visible. The choice for those who prefer pink to yellow but want all the benefits
Both colours have the same engineering and performance. Purely a colour preference.
Particularly good for
- Gardeners who lose tools — the entire reason FloraBrite exists. If you've gone through several pairs of secateurs over the years, this is the design that breaks the pattern
- Older gardeners — high-visibility tools are properly easier to spot, particularly when bending and looking around becomes harder
- Allotment gardeners — busy plots, lots of bags and tools; the bright colours mean less time hunting and more time growing
- Cut-flower growers — working across large beds, often setting down and picking up secateurs throughout a session
- Anyone working at dusk — the reflective detail is genuinely useful in fading light
- People sharing garden tools across a household — "where did Dad put the secateurs?" gets significantly easier when they're hot pink
- As a gift for someone who's mentioned losing their secateurs — an extra-considered choice
Cutting and pruning range — how FloraBrite fits
We stock several B&B cutting and pruning tools because different jobs benefit from different tools:
- FloraBrite Bypass Secateurs (this) — everyday workhorse for living-stem cutting up to 2.5cm. The anti-loss design
- Collectors Bypass Secateurs (Navy) — heritage aesthetic alternative; same essential cutting work, different visual register
- Ergo Deadheader — ergonomic palm-squeeze design for arthritis-friendly soft-stem cutting and deadheading
- Collectors Fruit & Flower Snips (Pink) — lighter scissor-action for soft snipping
- RHS Pocket Pruner — compact secateurs that fit in a pocket; useful for tool-belt and on-the-move work
- Flora & Fauna Gift Set — coordinated trowel and secateurs in heritage design; the gift presentation
Most working gardens benefit from at least two cutting tools. The FloraBrite is the brilliant choice for the gardener who loses things; the heritage Collectors is the choice for the gardener who likes the traditional look. Either way, you've got the everyday work covered.
Specifications
- Brand: Burgon & Ball (FloraBrite® range, RHS-endorsed)
- Type: Bypass secateurs for living-stem pruning
- Cutting capacity: Up to 2.5cm diameter
- Blade: Fully hardened and tempered high-carbon steel
- Handles: Robust alloy core with soft ergonomic grip coating; fluorescent colour
- Colour: Sunny yellow OR vivid pink (selectable variant)
- Features: Reflective detail for low-light visibility; rubber cushion stop between handles; secure locking mechanism
- Hand size: Suitable for medium to large hands
- Endorsement: Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) endorsed
- Guarantee: 10-year guarantee against manufacturing defects
- SKU: GFBBSPINK (pink) / GFBBSYELLOW (yellow)
About Burgon & Ball
Burgon & Ball are one of Britain's oldest toolmakers, founded in Sheffield in 1730. They're RHS-endorsed, supplier to the Royal Horticultural Society, and the chosen manufacturer for the Sophie Conran licensed garden tool collection. We stock their range because they make proper garden tools the proper way — tested in real working gardens, built to last decades rather than seasons.
As a gift
At £23.49 the FloraBrite Bypass Secateurs sit at a properly thoughtful gift price point. Particularly suited to:
- Someone who's mentioned losing their secateurs — the most considerate possible gift response
- A new gardener — properly serious starter secateurs that won't go missing on the first weekend
- An older gardener — the visibility helps; the RHS endorsement and 10-year guarantee make it a serious gift
- An allotment-keeper — the practicality is genuine; allotments swallow tools
- For colour preference — pink for the recipient who'd love it, yellow for high visibility
- Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthdays, Christmas — year-round giftable
A small thought: there's a small joy in opening a garden shed door and immediately spotting your tools where they should be — not buried under last week's accidental compost cover. FloraBrite secateurs are one of those genuinely clever little inventions that solve a problem most gardeners didn't realise they were tolerating. After a season of bright-pink-handled pruning, going back to traditional-coloured secateurs feels like an unnecessary downgrade. The kind of small improvement that quietly compounds across all your gardening sessions.
What's included
Care and use
- Oil pivot point and spring annually for smooth action
- Sharpen blades occasionally with a fine stone or file
- Engage the locking mechanism when not in use
- Store dry; avoid damp or outdoor storage
- Replace any worn parts (springs available from B&B)