CLASSES aND WORKSHOPS
Leslie can tailor any private or group pruning class/workshop detailed below to suit your individual needs.
learn how to prune
Learning how to prune is fun and easy! Leslie has specialized in teaching beginning pruning for two decades. Individual students, small groups or large audiences learn three basic cuts, natural pruning tricks, design advice, pruning within a landscape, and much more. The audience or a few volunteers, prune with Leslie during the class. People learn valuable lessons in the first ten minutes! Pruning can be taught in the garden or even a lecture room with over 50 people such as in the photo at left.
WORKSHOP FEES
*Hands-on pruning workshops may require materials like pruning shears, saws, and pre-cut branches.
SMALL workshops generally run 3-4 hours for groups up to 15. LARGE demonstation workshops generally run 3-4 hours for groups of 15 or more, where one or two volunteers are selected to prune along with me.
Workshop fees range from $300(local)-$400(afar including humble travel/food/lodging if necessary).
Please contact me for the fee and availability of pruning classes and workshop.
Leslie welcomes your personal/organization’s individual needs and ideas!
WANT TO LEARN MORE? Others ways to learn about pruning: (each organization name is “Live Link”-Tap)
Merritt College is a landscape horticulture school in Oakland that offers the only aesthetic pruning program in America, in addition to landscaping, rock setting, and horticulture classes.
Merritt College Pruning Club allows beginners to intermediate pruners to learn hands-on natural pruning for free while volunteering at non-profit gardens in the S. F. Bay Area—learn from professionals and have fun.
Portland Japanese Garden ’s Cultural Crossing Expansion is the first public garden Japanese garden school in the country.
Aesthetic Pruners Association offers lectures, workshops and pruning related events to members and the public about aesthetic pruning of any type of garden and more.
North American Japanese Garden Association offers events and conferences across the U.S.A throughout the year.
Japanese Garden Journal teaches all aspects of Japanese garden design, maintenance and architecture.