PRUNING FOR PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LANDSCAPES

With PRUNING (and DESIGN CONSULTATION next page) your landscape develops beauty/drama/health.

“I have always loved the wild style of our California native garden, Leslie made it even better with her aesthetic pruning style. The wild is still there and the birds are still there but now I can enjoy viewpoints of special plants I could not see from my seating area previously and the larger plants are not taking over...I think Leslie has a deep respect for California native plants and she pruned them lovingly from a place of knowledge and attuned to their spirit. I highly recommend utilizing her skill in your native garden, you will be pleased.” Client and natural weaver T. Blair (built her landscape!)

“Multiple pruning projects you accomplished addressed issues that we didn’t anticipate being able to fix…Your low-maintenance solution and pruning work look gorgeous and are functional and mean I don’t need to rip them out, which I was considering doing. I didn’t expect there to be a win-win solution there, and I’m so happy we can keep them and that they will be possible to maintain.” J. Shay

Pricing affordable, customized to desires/landscape! Try me.

General

Leslie has practiced/taught Aesthetic Pruning over thirty years. Aesthetic Pruning is pruning so natural you can’t tell the plant/landscape has been pruned. It involves pruning to the look of each species as it might grow in nature, with consideration of the overall design of the garden, movement, viewing points outside/inside home, borrowed scenery. Past work listed in Leslie’s bio.

current Pruning client Info

Leslie is accepting Ca. Native Landscape pruning clients only at this time, and some special projects in Berkeley. (Design Consultation clients accepted for any type of garden.)Leslie’s clients appreciate her pruning skills, and ability to look at the garden as a whole, and the affordability of her prices.

Leslie has worked on hundreds of types of Ca. native trees, shrubs, perennials and flora. Her private garden is regularly shown on Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour. She has pruned specifically: Barberry, Buckwheats, Ca Rose, Carpinteria, Coffeeberry (can be pruned tall, short, wide, thick, thin, narrow), Dogwood, Elderberry, Hollyleaf Cherry, Ceanothus, Douglas-fir, Huckleberry, Island Snapdragon, Lemonade Berry, Mahonia, Manzanita, Mallow, Mock Orange, Monkeyflower, Mountain Mahogany, Ocean Spray, Oregon Grape, Pink flowering Currant, Redbud, Redwood, Spicebush, Sage, Silktassel, Spirea, Sword Fern, Toyon, Twinberry, Vine Maple, W. Azalea, W. Serviceberry, and many more!

contact

Feel free to email me using my contact form. I am based in Berkeley, Ca