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October 15, 2022
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Aesthetic Pruning Workshop
Aesthetic Pruning Workshop
Instructor: Maryann Lewis, Aesthetic Pruning
Saturday, October 15 | 1-4pm
Admission $50
An elegantly pruned small tree is a heady sight, its muscular arms bearing layers of foliage, its shape in synch with its surroundings. Such a tree betrays scant sign of human interference. Oh to be a plant so well-pruned!
Certainly, many are. And yours can be, too, after participating in this intensive 3-hour, hands-on workshop with aesthetic pruner, Maryann Lewis.
With the Wonder Garden as her classroom, Ms. Lewis will offer a dozen students the opportunity to observe, discuss and strategize approaches to pruning shrubs and small trees. She’ll begin with woody plant biology, demonstrate when and how to use a variety of pruning tools and cuts, and help students envision how the pruning decisions they make today will affect the look of a tree years down the road.
As Ms. Lewis looks on and supervises, students will then break into groups and take on the Wonder Garden’s overgrown conifers. Being a part of these trees’ transformation is a pretty thrilling way to learn what and what not to do! It will immerse students right into the heart – and art – of aesthetic pruning.
Maryann Lewis is a master of Aesthetic Pruning, an approach that combines horticultural science with principals of art and design. Much like a sculptor who imagines a figure breaking free from stone, Ms. Lewis reads a plant’s inherent structure and works to release its form. Her tools are not merely pruners but light, shadow, space and time.
Formerly a California architect, she began her own aesthetic pruning business in 2005 and later co-founded the Aesthetic Pruners Association. She now lives in Portland, OR.
View Maryann Lewis’s website here
Aesthetic Pruning Workshop
