A gardening aid in the form of a nylon pruning cloth which has a split down its center and terminates at a central circular section. A pouch is sewn on one side of the cloth to collect pruned clippings. The pruning cloth fits around the base of a shrub or tree and catches the clippings as they fall. When the pruned specimen is completely trimmed, any of the clippings which have not fallen from the specimen onto the pruning cloth may be swept thereupon and towed away for easy and clean removal from a particular work site.