The garden power tools that will make your life easier this summer

With the summer holidays approaching and barbecues and al fresco dining back on the menu, you might well be thinking about how to make the most of your outdoor space. Garden power tools will help you get your lawn, hedge or patio looking tip-top with minimal time, effort and energy – leaving you more time to sit back, relax and enjoy the sunshine. 

Garden power tools range from electric to battery powered and petrol, and in many cases you can choose between a corded or cordless product. You could even take it one step further and invest in a robotic lawn mower, which would let you sit back and sip something cool while the robot does all the hard work.

Smart robotic mowers like the Bosch Indego 350 work without supervision and can be linked to your smart device, allowing you to start, pause, cancel or edit your cutting schedule from your phone or tablet, wherever you are. Robotic mowers are equipped with sensors to keep them on track and help them navigate around obstacles. The Ambrogio L60 Deluxe features six grass detection sensors, along with dual facing bump and drop-away sensors.

Prefer to take a more hands-on approach? A petrol strimmer will help you make light work of unkempt and hard-to-reach areas of undergrowth. Honda’s powerful high-speed strimmers are delivered fready for use, ully assembled, oiled, fuelled and tested. Cordless hedge cutters and shears allow for precision pruning while a cordless extendable option like the Mountfield Freedom 500 MPH 50 Li will let you tackle hard-to-reach branches.

Cleaning the patio? A pressure washer will save you time and energy – and few things beat the satisfaction of blasting stubborn dirt away with a powerful water jet. They use about 80% less water than the average garden hose and are perfect for cars, bikes, drives and brickwork too. Pick a model with a variety of settings or attachments to suit all your outdoor cleaning tasks. 

While your robo-mower tends to the lawn, you can get on with those indoor DIY projects. Whether you’re (finally) putting up those shelves or curating a gallery wall, our range of power tools has everything you’ll need to get started, from drills, heat guns and saws to decorating and crafting tools.