You could win a fantastic pair of Okatsune secateurs in our green-fingered giveaway!

In association with Beechfield Bonsai
Lots of us rediscovered our gardens last year, and some of you may have taken up gardening for the first time. Of course, you need a range of tools to keep your garden in tip-top condition or keep your veg patch under control, and a good pair of secateurs is a vital part of your gardening toolkit.
Whether you’re an experienced gardener, a keen flower arranger, a bonsai enthusiast or even just starting to potter in the garden, these Okatsune secateurs are the ideal tool to have at hand.
Okatsune are a premium quality brand of Japanese garden hand tools. These secateurs are excellent for use around the garden, and regularly get great reviews in Gardener’s World Magazine.
These secateurs are traditionally style bypass secateurs with Okatsune’s distinctive red and white handles. The razor-sharp blades are made of the best Izumo Yasugi steel, which was traditionally used for Samurai swords.
They are available in a range of sizes and cost around £43 for the 103 standard size. This is a great investment, as with a little maintenance you can expect Okatsune secateurs to last a lifetime!

And you could win a pair of Okatsune secateurs thanks to Beechfield Bonsai!
Beechfield Bonsai are a premium bonsai retailer who stock everything the bonsai enthusiast could need. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced bonsai grower, you’ll find everything you need from tools, wires and soil mixes to pots and display stands.
At their Shropshire nursery, you can get expert advice on caring for your bonsai trees. You can also try out their wide selection of bonsai tools or buy from their range of bonsai trees to suit all budgets.
And now Beechfield Bonsai are offering one SallyAkins.com reader the opportunity to win a pair of Okatsune 103 secateurs. They’ll be a great addition to your own garden toolkit or a fantastic present for a keen gardener.

For your chance to win, simply log into the Rafflecopter below and answer the easy question. There are also some bonus social media entries that you can use to boost your chances of winning.
The giveaway will close at 11.59PM on Friday 5th March 2021 and is open to UK entrants aged 18+ only.
And the question you need to answer to be in with a chance of winning this prize is:
What is your favourite garden plant or tree?
Good luck!
Listed on Loquax, Competition Database, Prize Finder
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Cherry trees. Although the birds get more fruit then we do, I do love both the blossom and the fruit.
I love raspberry bushes
I love my lavender plants because as well as looking beautiful they smell gorgeous.
My little olive tree
My rose bush!
Love apple blossom trees :-)
love daffodils
Bizzy lizzies are my favourite
Acer Palmatum is an absolute favourite of mine
Peony
I love roses.
I have a lovely white fuschia shrub that I grew from a cutting. Last year it was in flower from March until December. Lovely !
I love rose bushes in my garden
It has to be the cherry tree I planted 14 years ago when my dear dog died. It is in her favourite place in the garden and has grown really big now. The birds usually get the cherries before me, but I don’t mind.
I love our Japanese Maple
Mahonia japonica. Evergreen, sweet smelling early flowers and hardy, I can’t fault it.
I NEED these!
I love the beautiful tulips that grow in our garden in the springtime
I love my Peonies
Daffodils
love dhalias
Snowdrops and Bluebells!
I love my dahlias and have a few different ones. The flowers are so pretty and very different to each other.
I like tulips and roses
Roses
my homegrown Elizabeth Rose
I’d say Buddleia as it is so good for wildlife, not only insects but goldfinches feed on the seeds in autumn.
I love a cherry blossom tree
I like roses, we have standard roses, dog roses and miniature roses in the garden. I love them all.
Nice big blousey Chrysanthemums – wonderful colours
I love Japanese Acer trees
For me it has to be my Pyrus salicifolia simple and just beautiful
Rose bushes are my favourite, I love them.
I love lavender ( Lavendula Auguustifolia)
I love our roses buses but they do need a lot of looking after haha.
Clematis
I love my Vicotria Plumb tree as it gives off so many plumbs each year!
Has to be our cherry blossom tree!
I love apple trees as I like making apple crumble from the apples.
I have a Buddleia my late Mother grew from a cutting which I love
My favourite garden tree is Tetrapanex Rex.I am transforming my sunny but rather boring patio area into a tropical ‘jungle’ with lots of big leavy foliage plants and this ‘T Rex’ is the monster plant taking centre stage.
Daffodils the start of new beginnings
I love Acers.
So Many! but my favourite is my Sarah Bernhardt Peony
Love dahlias – so bright and love the different shapes
I have \an Acer planted by my wife which I will always treasure.
sunflowers
my acer, orange dream
Thyme!
Camellia
My favourite tree is the lilac tree as I used to climb the one in my garden when I was a child.
We have several red peonies from a cutting from my late Mum’s garden many years ago. It was one of her favourite plants and every time I look at them in bloom I think of my lovely Mum.
I bought a Chinese maple a few years ago and it is flourishing! Fabulous colours. Definitely my favourite
I love magnolias
Cherry blossom tree is fantastic
Sweet peas, so dainty and pretty
I love my small Breaburn and my small Conference pear trees! Both give very tasty fruits!
Love my lilac, was an offshoot of my Dad’s so always reminds me of him.
My favourite flowers are Peonies, I think they are beautiful.
I love roses and oak trees!
Just love my Japanese Acers,the autumnal colours are spectacular.
ours is our garden palm as it dominates our garden
Daffodils, I feel like it’s the world saying don’t worry the sunshine is coming.
I love my mini Japanese maple!
My almond tree grown from a nut x
Cherry blossom is my favourite tree
My wisteria
My umbrella plant – now over 6 ft and over 20 years old
I’ve always loved daffodils x
a weeping willow would be my favourite
I adore a magnolia tree
I love oak trees, so beautiful.
I love a cherry blossom, they are absolutely gorgeous although a nightmare to clean up
I love my mock orange shrub. I planted it when my cat died and now it flowers every year around his anniversary.
I like Elm trees.
I have a pair of beautiful camellias, one pink and one red, which are just coming into flower now. I prune them in May, a job for some really sturdy secateurs!
I ADORE Acer trees, the different colours they turn in the seasons and also Heucheras xx thanks for the chance xx
I like the apple tree in my garden!
I love lavender
Tamarix tetrandra Light, feathery large plumes of pink flowers beautiful when a light breeze blows keep mine pruned prefer it as a small shrub a delight to have in the garden.
Sunflowers!
Tulips – they say spring has truly arrived! I adore them.
I LOVE THE SMELL OF PINE
Hostas and snowdrops are my favourites
my rose tree
My rose bush!
My favourite garden plant is lavender. It’s pretty, smells wonderful, and attracts important wildlife.
I love daffodils because you plant them once and they come back each year and brighten the garden up
acer
A Victoria Plum tree that I planted from a sapling 19 years ago. It produced plums for the first time last year.
I love our cherry tree and flowers wise, then it will be tulips and daffodils. I can’t split between the two flowers for personal reasons
I love hydrangeas
Love an oak tree. Reminds me of my childhood home.
I am trying to grow a plum tree. Don’t think I will be on this planet by time it produces fruit – if it ever does.
I’m addicted to Fuchsias ! So much so that I called my daughter Fuchsia. I love all the different varieties shapes and colour combinations
The mock orange shrub in my garden. The twice a year blossom is so fragrant and really pretty. Also the shrub is tall and provides us with some privacy.
I am not the best gardener but do love my rose plants
I love shrubs they are so hardy
I love my roses
Snowdrops, spring is on its way
Probably Olive my much loved olive tree
Rudbeckia – as well as a beautiful colour in the summer, the seeds left behind after the flowers fade are much loved by goldfinches. We leave the dead stalks in place right through the winter and have dozens of goldfinches visiting every day, so the plants actually bring colour to the garden all year round!
Forget me nots are my favourite but I do love a rose bush
I love nasturtiums so colourful and my 2 indoor bunnies love to eat them too as they really good for them xx
My favourite tree is the cherry blossom.
Tough choice, but I’m going to say Lupins.
I love my fruit trees – plum, apple and cherry.
My Acer tree that changes colour all year round.
Has to be roses and daffodils for me
I love Sweet Pea as they remind me of my childhood.
My favourite garden plant is the dahlia because there are so many different kinds in so many different colours
Acers
I love Orchids! xx
I love oak trees
I like to see the spring flowers such as crocus and snowdrops.
love roses.
my lemon grass is my favourite plant
Either Acer or astrantia. So difficult to choose
we get gorgeous wild poppies every year under the kitchen window
Probably the humble thyme.
I love to see Rose’s brings back memories of my dear dad
Our victoria plum tree
Absolutely love my flowers – irises are just perfect!!
beech tree
I love sunflowers, they are so easy to grow and quick too :)
I love old fashioned, blousey tea roses with a high scent
cineraria
love roses
I love a Cherry Blossom Tree!
Palm trees
I love fuschia bushes
cherry tree
Sweet peas as they are simple and lovely
I love roses
I have a Cotinus that I love. I caught my puppy right after he dug it up and was racing around the garden with it in his mouth. I thought the worst had happened but I replanted it in a pot and it’s doing ok.
I love daffodils. It’s a sure sign spring is on it’s way.
I like sweet peas because they flower all summer and smell lovely
I love sunflowers
My fragrant jasmine by the front door
I am a massive fan of wisteria! Although not the easiest to maintain, its always worth it come spring/ summer time!
Our little apple tree on our allotment
Cherry blossom trees and dahlias
I adore my peonies
I love Acers, they turn such a beautiful colour in the autumn.
I love Clematis and Cherry Tree’s when they blossom.
Although I love our Acers, our Corkscrew / Contorted hazel tree gives us something all year round.
Yellow roses and apple tree
We have a Giant Scabius which grows to about 3m high and is covered in large cream flower heads which are covered in bees and butterflies. After the flowers are gone the stems still provide a feature well into the autumn. Cut back to the ground it will recover and bloom again the following year. This was grown from a single seed head from a nearby wildflower haven.
ALL my different colourd roses
I love my Ficus Bonsai, but for a flowering plant I would choose Anemones. They are some of the first flowers to come through in the Spring, and this year they made it through the snow and frost, and appeared early!
Roses have to be my favourite, as they come in sorts of varieties and colours.
Love daffodils as its the sign of longer days and warmer weather (mostly)
Japanese maple, beautiful red bush
Honeysuckle – so pretty and smells great too!
These look perfect for pruning my roses. Fab prize. Would love to win these
Roses are my favourite
My favourite garden plant is the azalea.
I love how easy our Hydrangea bush is to keep and to trim and yet it looks beautiful.
Any thing edible.
Sweet peas
my plum tree has to be my favoite
Camilias – just waiting for the buds to open – a sure sign winter is over
lavender – as much as possible of it
I love roses
My peach tree, I have a South facing garden and get an abundance of fruit
I love our roses, especially the deliciously fragrant but delicate blue moon!
I love my dwarf fruit trees – cherry, apricot, apple and pears and I get so much fruit from them and beautiful blossom
Dahlias
I love Rowan Trees
Got to be roses
I love all of my roses
I adore my Wisteria.
Dwarf lemon tree
magnolia tree
Tulips
I love the delicate Angels Fishing Rod thatI bought from Gardeners World Live.
Heather.
Passionflower is beautiful
My Magnolia tree in my front garden. Unfortunately the frost always gets the flowers as they are just opening
Lavender. It smells amazing, looks great and the bumblebees love it!
A mahonia. Great for coverage and privacy
Dierama pulcherrimum ·
A Blossom tree
Acer Palmatum – at certain times of the day, with the sun just touching the leaves, it turns a glistening, vibrant red, looking awesome!
Our Pear tree. It produces some gorgeous big Conference pears
Mine is the rhododendron beautiful full blooms in lots of varieties of colour
Roses for their summery scents
My bay tree
I love Lilacs
I adore dahlias
We have a strawberry tree, and the fruit are lovely and decorative
I love hydrangeas – I have 5 in my garden & they always remind me of a small village we visited in Northern France a few years ago. They were in nearly every front garden & were absolutely beautiful!
Apple trees
a fruit tree like an apple tree
My Mexican Orange Blossom, a bush the size of a tree is my fave.
I love snowdrops – first sign that Spring is on the way
My hazelnut tree.
I love my Heathers
My favourite is my old walnut tree. Every year it is very late to green up and I am always worried it has died but then it makes a late come back
I love alliums
I love the wisteria we have growing over the door, it’s so pretty in the summer
I love lavender
I love Tulips
Wisteria for me growing up the side of a house
cherry blossom tree
Our pink rose. It’s beautiful
Our Magnolia Tree is beautiful with iconic shaped flowers
I love my azaleas. So colourful and cheerful.
i like hydrangeas
Japanese Maple
My favourite garden plants are Gerberas; beautiful colours and just pretty flowers.
so mine is a flower which are bluebells, as a child once I saw these I knew it was nearly my birthday
I love my tree Peony and also my Fig trees
Japanese Maple
I love fuchsias, so dainty
Rose bush
Holly bush!
I love my pyracantha, despite its thorns
I love Japanese Acer trees
Mine is the wisteria that grows on the front of my house!
Baby Pink Peonies
I really love cherry blossom, it looks so pretty and smells amazing too.
I absolutely love Wisteria. I am really looking forward to spring to see their gorgeous blooms over some of the old and beautiful houses which share this lovely pocket of countryside with me.
My apple tree
Camelia
The apricot tree on my allotment – beautiful blossom, followed by the sweetest gorgeous fruits.
Honeysuckle for the scent
I do love the look and smell of roses plus have a lot of other scented plants.
I love roses.
Magnolia ❤️❤️ Can’t wait for mine to bloom again x
my bay trees
I love the red leaved Acer we have by our pond – it’s beautiful
The Rose (scented are my favourite)
An English Rose
Clematis. So many varieties and colours where you can have one flowering each month of the year. Stunning plants.
Cherry Blossom is my favourite many thanks….
My lovely Acer palmatum
Sunflowers, king of all plants!
Rhodedendron bushes – their flowers are so colourful and magnificent.
snowdrops
Fatsia Japonica
My climbing rose – its smells beautiful
Magnolia tree
I love Sunflowers, they seem to do well in our garden and do grow very tall, they make me smile
I love oriental lilly’s look beautiful in my front garden.
I love apple trees
Cherry Blossom tree
I love our Fuchsia bush it’s so bright and colourful and they seem to flower for most of the year
Cherry blossom is my favourite!
My rose bush!
An Acer
Alium
I love primroses
I love sunflowers
Allium
Love my cherry blossom tree
Peonies xx
Olive trees
I love Fuschias
Philadelphus (Mock Orange).
Johnson blue geranium – reminds me of my Dads garden
I love my buddleia, I love seeing all the bees and butterflies.
We have a few acers in the garden and I love them because they are all so different but all have the same wonderful sense of style.
I have an Acer in a pot which comes out a gorgeous red colour every year.
Sweet Williams!
I love roses.
I love Acers they come in a variety of beautiful colours large or small ideal for any size garden or tub
We have a beautiful birch tree in our garden which I love
Favourite plant: Photinia Red Robin
My solomon seal
love cherry blossom
Sweet peas are my favourite as I love the smell.
we love our roses
I love camellia japonica- such beautiful blooms and one of the first to blossom in my garden.
I love my acers
I like my blackberry planet such nice fruit.
I love our bottle brush plant.
I love lilacs, the flowers are beautiful and they smell amazing.
Cherry blossoms
I really like Acer trees
My beautiful little lime tree ❤️
I love my rose bushes.
I love daffodils, the start of spring is wonderful!
I love climbing roses
Roses
Our bay tree that sits by the patio is the gift that keeps giving when I am cooking a savoury dish.
Snowdrops – very far and few between alas, but always so gorgeous to look at
I love jasmine as I love the scent on summer evenings
I love a colourful Acer
I love Magnolias
Roses
I love buddleia It attracts so many insects butterflies and bees
I absolutely love daffodils – such a beautiful colour and they make me so happy that spring is on it’s way!
Our Hapil Strawberry plants in the garden are my favourite – they are such a delicious strawberry not available in shops because they do not travel well.
I love our rose bushes
Jasmine with fuscia a close second
I love hydrangeas. They are good (nearly) all year value
Dahlias
My favourite plant is Clematis, I love their diversity, there is one for every position, every season and a wide range of colours and flower size
Star Magnolia
Roses are my favourite
My beautiful Acer – glorious at all times of year, spectacular in the Autumn. I love it.
Silver Birch
Crocus – a sign of spring. The blackbirds dig all our up but I still love them!
We love our mulberry Tree.
Oh, my. I adore trees so would find it almost impossible to choose one so will say all forms of flowering cherries.
I love my lemon trees
I love Fuschias
I love our Budhlia
I have a collection of 250 dahlias that need digging up and stoing each autumn and a berautiful yellow magnolia that I adore.
I love to grow daffodils. I’m not a great gardener and even I can’t ruin them!
I love snapdragons – my grandparents had them in their garden when they moved house. I was 6 and I was fascinated…I’ve loved them ever since
I love sweat peas. Their colour and fragrance are gorgeous.
I love sweet peas. So colourful and pretty
I love English lavender for the wonderful fragrance.
I love all kinds of roses
Weeping Willow
I love my blackcurrant bushes which provide me with so much fruit and they look lovely too.
I love red and white Verbenas
I love peonies.
My favourite garden plant is the apple tree and we have a Millicent Barnes and Blenheim Orange in the garden.
I love roses
My blueberry bushes are fantastic all year round
has to be honeysuckle – love the smell
Roses
I do love our acers
white marseilles fig
So many to choose from! Hyacinths at the monument for the colours and scent.
I love the hawthorn tree in my garden.
I love my hydrangeas
I love Daffodils
I love my fruit trees
I love daisies and tulips
My olive tree
Any type of fuchsia plant or shrub but particularly giant fuchsias for my garden tubs.
I love primroses. They are very pretty and provide hope in spring. This year more than ever we need that hope!! Come on primroses we need you to flower!!
I love my Hazel Tree, but I also have two Eddoes that have sprouted … so hopefully this summer there will be a couple of new kids on the block fighting for the top spot in my heart :0)
Peonies
Clematis – I’m addicted to them!
It has to be the Red Rose.
I love roses.
Sweet peas,love the smell
We use to have an apple blossom tree in our garden that had wonderful purple blooms x
Cornflowers
Love our Japanese maples in our garden
I adore roses of all different colours
I love tulips
I love beautiful tulips
I have Tayberry that gets out of control in the summer.
Honey Suckle
I love my roses – each bush has a memory for me.
love the christmas rose xx
I love my bay tree because it’s practical and pretty.
Rose bush
Love Sweet peas for their scent and colour.
I love Roses
I love Daffodils
love sedums their flower heads in winter are always a delight when the frost is on them
I do love a Japanese Acer, so elegant and such beautiful colour leaves most of the year round
I love my lilac tree – so pretty when it blooms!
Rose Bush
I love lush dahlias.
Peony
I love our lavender and fuchsia plants
I love my Jasmine Bush. Fragrance smells amazing.
I do love snowdrops – first flower of Spring, they look so delicate yet they are strong enough to cope with really cold weather
Carnations
I love willow trees they are so pretty
I love Mimosas. You smell them before your see them.
I love my agapanthas – i love the blue ones for their colour and all of htem for their lovley seed heads
Snow drops as letting us know spring is around the corner
I love my new Rowan tree. It’s settling in nicely .
My crab apple tree , it’s all year round enjoyment and when the field fares come to take the berries it’s awesome
I like tulips as they remind me of spring!
rose bush
It has to be Lavender – the vibrant purplish colour and the calming smell – can’t beat it
Lavender
I love any kind of fruit tree and the spring flowers with their promise of warmer days.
love cherry trees and roses
I do love roses particularly ones with a strong scent and a pretty pastel colour.
My Acer Tree
I love my roses
So many its hard to choose, but I love the sunflower for its vibrancy presence and ability to attract the bees.
I’m loving the snowdrops and daffodils at the moment, brightening the place up
I love my Camelia bush
I love a Japanese Acer. The colour is beautiful.
I like tulips and daffodils.
I love conifers
I love Weeping Willows – as a child I thought they’d be perfect to hide in – and there’s still something magical about them xx
I really love bluebells. They are so pretty
My favourite plant in the garden is a rose – the gorgeously scented Peace rose.
Daffodils are my absolute favourite.
I love Gladioli
I love sweet peas! They bring so much colour.
My Acer palmatum atropurpureum, is’s about 20 years old and lovely.
I love lavender plants, they smell amazing!
I love camellias
Pear tree :)
Dogwood, they bring height and colour to our garden all year round and we have bird feeders hung in ours and they seem to love them!
i love roses so many colours so pretty
Rhubarb although I would love a fully productive asparagus bed
My Oleanders, hubby comes from Malta where they grow like weeds. We’re lucky they survive on our South facing patio in Sussex, but they do need careful pruning to keep them blossoming & looking beautiful.
Sticks on Fire is one of my favourite plants, it sure brightens up the garden :)
I love my Red Hot Pokers.
A lovely rose bush my sons bought me one year for mothers day!
love the smell of lavender , and looks so pretty
tree lily’s
I love sweet peas! They are so lovely.
I love Magnolia & Lilac trees
Apple Tree as it reminds me of my childhood and all those autumnal gastronomical treats.
My favourite flowers are sweet peas
At the moment it’s my alstromeria that is just so beautiful when in bloom
My favourite garden plant is dahlia.
My favourite garden plant is Carnations.
Daffodils are my favourite
i love my lavender plants – love watching the bees drawn to them. Also my rosemary bush – the bees love that when it is in flower too.
I’m partial to all fucshia
I love black roses!
Tomato plants. Homegrown tomatoes taste the best!