Pruning Basics - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Pruning Basics

Pruning Basics

Workshops | Light in Winter

Saturday, February 20, 2016 | 10 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Administration Building Classroom 125
Preregistration Required

Improve your pruning skills and knowledge by learning to prune your shrubs correctly. This class will emphasize the natural way a plant grows and how to prune appropriately. Topics covered will be proper methods of pruning deciduous and evergreen shrubs for optimal fruit and flowering, timing, shaping, and habit. Talk will include best tools for the job. Also discussed will be best tree-pruning practices. Bring pruners for classroom exercises.

Dress for a walk in the Garden to study techniques. Bring lunch.

$63 member; $71 nonmember.

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