Seasonal Pruning: Dormant Trees and Shrubs This program will be held indoors in one of our well-ventilated classrooms. Group size will not exceed current state restrictions. Saturday, December 12, 2020 2:00-3:30 PM Max Participants: 10 Instructor: Reed Pugh Gardens will have entered dormancy in early December, and this is an excellent time to prune selected fall flowering shrubs, some evergreen plants, ornamental trees and to prepare plants for winter. Deciduous plants are without leaves, and this opportunity gives us clear vision to the structure of the plant. We will wander the gardens at Tower Hill (Dress Accordingly) and visit a number of shrubs and trees and discuss their intended form and how we would approach pruning them. Following is a list of plants we may discuss or prune at THBG: Viburnum, Japanese Maple, Weigela, Alnus, Dogwood and more. While we will not prune all the plants we will visit, everyone will have a chance to do some hands-on pruning during the workshop. Reed's first career was in Advertising in NYC, but after moving to San Francisco 25 years ago, he made a life-altering change and went back to school for Ornamental Horticulture. Over the years in San Francisco and Boston he has worked in multiple nurseries, had his own design, installation and maintenance businesses on both coasts, managed a 30 acre historic private estate in Brookline, and managed one of the top fine-gardening companies in New England. Reed has been a Massachusetts Certified Horticulturist (MCH). Single class scheduled on 12/12/2020 at 2:00PM