Taking the Edge off: Pruning for Natural Areas Workshop
- All levels
- 18 and older
- $85
- 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
- 6 hours & 30 minutes
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This lecture and hands-on workshop will cover how to manage and prune native vegetation adjacent to trails, drives, and streets for optimal environmental functions, appearance, safety, & visibility. This class is open to everyone, but geared towards public works, maintenance, and landscape crew members as well as community stewardship volunteers, supervisors, and field staff.
Natural area landscapes hold an important place and functions in the urban environment. Managing vegetation along trails, roads, and other edges can pose a variety of challenges for the available stewardship resources. This lecture and hands-on workshop will cover how to manage and prune native vegetation adjacent to trails, drives, and streets for optimal environmental functions, appearance, safety, & visibility. The lecture will include current best pruning practices and how they translate for the specific goals and functions of natural area plantings. Considerations for reducing long-term labor needs and how to lengthen the time between pruning cycles will be covered, along with common pruning techniques that are ineffective and why. After the lunch break, the class will meet at a field site in NE Seattle for hands-on field instruction. Students will get practice using the best pruning techniques for the most effective results, working on a variety of native plants.
This class is open to everyone, but geared towards public works, maintenance, and landscape crew members as well as community stewardship volunteers, supervisors, and field staff.
Cancellation and refund requests must be submitted in writing to [email protected]
If a program is canceled by the school for any reason, a full refund will be made to all enrollees. Refunds may take four weeks to process.
In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.
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The University of Washington Botanic Gardens is a unit within the School of Environmental & Forest Sciences and encompasses two sites: the Washington Park Arboretum on the south side of Union Bay and the Center for Urban Horticulture on the north side. The 230-acre Arboretum includes a vibrant collection...
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UW Botanic Gardens
University District
3501 NE 41st St
Seattle, Washington 98195 University District
3501 NE 41st St
Seattle, Washington 98195
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