If you want to have beautiful hedges year-round, you’re going to have to work for it. Such is life. What you don’t want is to work harder than you need to or waste money on expensive hedge trimmers ...

A battery-powered string trimmer that has the oomph of a gas model is worth a look on that basis alone. Factor in that you can swap a blower, edger, or cultivator with the trimming head of the Ryobi ...