Bypass garden pruners are probably the most popular.
They make a nice clean cut using two curved blades that bypass each other in the same manner as a pair of scissors.
One blade is sharpened on the outside edge and it slips by a thicker unsharpened blade.
Because of the closeness and cleanness of the cuts, a bypass hand pruner is the most suitable tools for a gardener.
Bypass pruners are best at cutting or pruning “live” material from soft tissue plants like vegetables, fruits, flowers, to woody shrub branches and stems, to tree limbs where you want to make nice clean cuts.
Since the action is a bypass motion you will not smash the wood or tissue that you are leaving on the plant.