Summer Pruning Workshop

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Saturday, July 18th, 2015
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Why prune in the summer? How the heck do I prune my fruit tree?! If you’ve asked yourself these questions over and over this is the workshop for you! Participants will learn all about summer pruning and get a chance to apply their new pruning knowledge in our teaching garden under the supervision of Gordon and Alysha (our site manager).

Topics covered in this in-depth workshop will include:

- Summer versus winter pruning
- Why even bother pruning?
- Firstly – do no harm…the perils of overpruning!
- Pears, apples, plums, cherries.. some fundamental differences in pruning these
- Starting an espalier
- Pruning an established espalier
- What the heck is a cordon trained tree?
- bare root, pot grown,wine glasses, fruiting buds, growth buds and…. confused? We will demystify ALL of these..and more!
- pruning young trees
- pruning mature tree

*Please bring a lunch along to the workshop so we can minimize our lunch break and maximize our learning.*

Please pre-register to reserve your space.

Presenter bio:  As a student of horticulture, pruning was always a hugely fascinating subject for Gordon. Fruit tree pruning scared (or should that be ‘scarred’?) him a lot, so much so that he rarely even made the first cut!  It became a mission to find out more about it, a lot more. Through lots of trial and error (quite a few errors actually) and training the hand and eye, he has managed to learn the many facets of this particular pruning style.

Gordon was trained in the craft of horticulture at both the Threave School of Gardening (two years) and Pershore College of Horticuture (three years) and along with running his own pruning business and a small specialty nursery (Alba Plants), he is one of the instructors on the Camosun College Horticulture Technician Program.