An apparatus for collection of garden waste (W) wherein the apparatus has a vacuuming mode of operation and a dirty fan operation in the vacuuming mode of operation thereof, the apparatus comprising: a hand-holdable unit (10) comprising a motor with an output shaft coupled to an impeller for generation of air flow; a volute (30) enclosing the impeller for direction of air flow from an axial air inlet of the volute past the impeller to a tangential air outlet (34) of the volute; a vacuum tube (40) for conducting dirty air flow to the air inlet of the volute in the vacuuming mode of operation; and a cyclonic separation arrangement (50) for receiving dirty air flow from the air outlet of the volute and separating garden waste from said dirty air flow in the vacuuming mode of operation. A blowervac comprising the apparatus for collection of garden waste.
