A hedge trimmer includes a first housing with a first handle, a second housingwith asecond handle, a transmission mechanism combined to the first housing, atrimming blade forbeing driven by the transmission mechanism to carry out a shearing motion, anelectric motorcombined to the first housing and for driving the transmission mechanism, anda battery packcombined to the second housing and for supplying power to the electric motor.The first andsecond housings respectively include first and second rotation connectionparts for making thembe connected and rotatable around a rotation axis. The second housing hasfirst and secondrotation positions when being rotated with respect to the first housing. Aplane perpendicular tothe rotation axis is obliquely intersected with a plane perpendicular to alongitudinal axis of thetrimming blade.
