This Week Master Pruner Series At Center For Urban Horticulture

The UW Botanic Gardens’ Center for Urban Horticulture (3501 NE 41st Street) is holding a couple of pruning classes this week as part of their yearly Master Pruner Series:

Japanese Garden Pruning - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20th  9:30 – 11:30AM

This class will cover pruning Japanese upright maples (fan pruning), Japanese laceleaf maples (shell pruning), pruning pines (cloud pruning) and shearing masses of lower story plants.  Cost: $35. Taught by Bess Bronstein

Shrubs III: The Puzzlers and Consequences - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20th  12:30 – 2:30PM

This class teaches how to prune rhododendron, hydrangea, callicarpa, Viburnum bodnantense and abelia. Included in this two-hour slideshow are basic pruning techniques techniques, common pruning mistakes and corrective pruning.  Cost: $35.  Taught by Ken Tuomi.

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