Learn how to prune trees for various purposes.  Included will be guidance on training young trees and maintaining mature trees, along with discussions of specialized tree pruning techniques.

Creating and maintaining a Japanese Garden requires a high level of pruning skill and dedicated annual maintenance. This class covers the pruning of Japanese maples (upright and weeping), bamboo, cloud pruning pines, and shearing masses of lower story plants.

Learn how to prune Rhododendron, Hydrangea, Callicarpa (Beautyberry), Viburnum bodnantense, and Abelia. Included in this class are basic pruning techniques, common pruning mistakes, and some corrective pruning.

Learn restoration strategies for trees and shrubs that have been mal-pruned. Mal-pruning may include topping, over-thinning, inappropriate shearing, and more. Included is discussion of watersprouts, suckers, radical renovation techniques, and crown restoration.

This is one of PlantAmnesty’s most popular classes and offers an introduction to pruning and other approaches for landscape renovation. Learn how to undo overplanting errors, when and how to transplant, and how to clean up a neglected landscape.

We’ll cover hedges and topiary, espalier, coppicing, pollarding, and pleaching, ending with a humorous note with slides from Cass Turnbull’s “The Good, The Bad, and the Bizarre” collection. 

Learn the basics of fruit tree pruning and how seasonal growth differences and specific goals affect when you use different pruning approaches. Apple, cherry, plum, and pear pruning will be addressed.

This class covers pruning and management of some of our most common ornamental vines: wisteria, common varieties of clematis, Boston ivy/Virginia creeper, trumpet vine, and honeysuckle.