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.

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ROOM WITH A VIEW

Learn about garden design with specific viewing points in mind. This is one of the most important design concepts for home gardeners and can be taught by touring an existing garden. A beginning pruning lesson can precede this class.

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Gardener as Curator—Long term Garden Design

This class introduces the Japanese garden concept of designing landscapes over time, like raising a child. Learn how to develop your overall garden, use borrowed scenery, cultivate the prima donna (focal) plants, and generally style the others—for the short and long term. A beginning pruning lesson can precede this class.

REFINED CLEANING

Learn how to wipe the dust off your “landscape painting” with refined cleaning—a Japanese New Year tradition that can be done any time of the year! Great class to allow home gardeners an easy way to interact with their garden. This is a great class for small garden areas in public gardens and for students of different levels and ages. A beginning pruning lesson can precede this class.

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!