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Category Archives: Pruning
Fall Japanese Sukashi Style Pine Tree Pruning Tutorial
This video not only showcases our fall pine tree pruning (in the Japanese sukashi style) artistry, style and techniques, but is also a detailed how-to tutorial from an experienced professional arborist and master aesthetic pruner. If you want to learn how to prune your own pine trees in this style, this video is a good place to start in learning this high level pruning skill that the Japanese garden craftsman have been perfecting for1,300 years. Please enjoy.
Toru Tanaka’s Sasebo Japanese Garden in Albuquerque
This video is not only a tour of Albuquerque’s Japanese garden, but an interview with its head gardener and a behind the scenes look at this unique garden, how it was designed and what it takes to maintain it. At the end of the video, the head gardener talks about the unique challenge of pruning the garden’s pine trees.
Pruning a 125-150 Year Old Derelict Lace Leaf Maple
In 40 years of aesthetic pruning of thousands of Japanese maples, this was by far the oldest and largest lace leaf maple I have ever pruned. It had not been pruned in decades! It looked like a giant mop head, but after five hours of expert aesthetic pruning, the hidden beauty of this queen of ornamental shrubs was amazingly revealed as you will see in this video. Please enjoy!
Pruning a Hoichi Kurisu Japanese Garden
A Derelict Estate Transforming Into a Japanese Garden
Do you have an over-mature landscape that you’re not sure what to do with? Rip it out or repurpose it? How about gradually transforming it into a Japanese style garden? In this video, we encountered a sixty plus year old landscape that has been neglected for years, and we accepted the challenge of refurbishing some very large, old shrubs by pruning them in a Japanese style. From this auspicious beginning, the ecstatic homeowner is planning to add more Japanese-themed aspects (like pines and a moss garden) into the existing landscape to create her dream garden.