Save the date – Saturday Jan 21

We still have openings in our annual pruning class. See specific information in the previous post. I had the pleasure of visiting Thomas and Nancy Ashe’s Japanese Maple Farm in Hampstead NC last weekend. A very unique nursery where Thomas transforms Japanese maples into works of art. The carefully tended trees are trained into a single leader form with the major branches separated into distinct layers giving a sort of pagoda appearance. This careful crafting of the trees takes many years but the results are clearly beautiful. Thomas demonstrated some of his pruning techniques that he uses and I plan on sharing some of what I learned in the upcoming pruning class.

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