Adult EducationDry Garden Botany series
About this event
A well-pruned specimen tree/shrub makes a beautiful focal point or an attractive backdrop in the dry garden. Aesthetic pruning can enhance your dry garden trees/shrubs, amplifying the expression of their unique forms. Learn the foundations of pruning for the dry garden including; timing, tools, technique, and theory.
Please note: that this will be an online webinar with Garden Manager Walker Young (offered via Zoom) not a lecture at the Garden. After registration (see below), you will receive instructions and a Zoom link one day prior to the lecture. How it works: Register one person with one email at a time.
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If you would like to register multiple people, please register them each separately with separate emails. The webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a recording link via email within one business day. Once the recording is sent, you will have seven days to watch.
After that time, the recording will expire. Access to the webinar recordings after the expiration date will be a charge of $20 (members)/$30 (non-members). Interested in signing up for the whole six-part webinar series?
Please register here. To sign-up for just this webinar please see ticket information below. About the Instructor Walker Young joined RBG in January 2012 and has become a custodian of the Garden’s aesthetic.
He helps preserve, renovate, and rejuvenate Mrs. Bancroft’s beds, with a particular talent for shaping mounds and arranging rocks to frame the plant collection. He also propagates rare succulents, manages the private collection, and contributed a cycad collection that adds an important transitional texture to the Garden’s plant palette.
Description from The Ruth Bancroft Garden & Nursery.
Registration, tickets, accessibility and last-minute changes are handled by the organizer. Confirm details before you go.
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