Summer Pruning and Seven Other Ways to Dwarf Trees

Saturday, August 28th 10 AM - 1 PM at hakone Estate & Gardens 21000 Big Basin Way, Saratoga CA. A lecture and seminar in classroom and gardens. Why do we dwarf trees? Have your trees grown too big for the space they occupy. In your layout, are there some effects that can’t be had without smaller versions of specific trees? Have you discovered that dwarf cultivars of sufficient size are twice the cost and hard to find? That smaller specimens grow too slowly? That the less expensive, faster growing large varieties grow too big or too coarse? Have your attempts at pruning them been unsuccessful? Learn what can be done. Hands-on pruning practice, if any, shall be on materials we bring to classroom. Bring your container plants, cut branches, hand-shears, and/or photos of plants. *Register for each class or admission separately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00 *Register for each class or admission seprately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00

Pruning Japanese Gardens in Autumn

Saturday, September 25th, 10 AM – 1 PM at Hakone Estate & Gardens, 21000 Big Basin Way, Saratoga CA. Lecture meets in the Crafts Area. Learn pruning aesthetics and techniques relevant to this season for your favorite woody plants used in Japanese-style gardens. Learn species-specific pruning techniques, when and where to use them in Japanese-style gardens. Learn about Japanese garden design through aesthetic pruning. Hands-on pruning practice, if any, shall be on materials we bring to classroom. Bring your own container plants, cut branches, hand-shears, and/or photos of plants. *Register for each class or admission separately Less than ("<") prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00 *Register for each class or admission separately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00

Pine Tree Aesthetics and Arboriculture

Saturday September 25th, 2 - 5 PM at Hakone Estate & Gardens, 21000 Big Basin Way Saratoga CA. Lecture meets in the Crafts Area. An introduction to the character uses, culture, and in-depth aesthetic pruning of Japanese garden Pines. Learn about the growing environment, physiology, life cycle, varieties, design uses, buying, planting, culture, and problems of Japanese garden Pines. Learn holistic integration of aesthetics, sound horticulture, and problem solving, especially how to prioritize seemingly contradictory information. Hands-on pruning practice, if any, shall be on materials we bring to classroom. Bring your own container plants, cut branches, hand-shears, and/or photos of plants. *Register for each class or admission seprately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00 *Register for each class or admission seprately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00

Layout a Japanese Home & Garden

Saturday October 9th, 10 AM - 1 PM at Hakone Estate & Gardens, 21000 Big Basin Way, Saratoga CA. A limited enrollment seminar & workshop meets in the Cultural Exchange Center. Learn Japanese-style home & garden layout in a seminar and workshop setting. Working under the guidance of your instructor you will each sketch your own unique home & garden layout ideas and solve layout problems. You will learn from other participants through by means of reports and discussion in an informal workshop setting. Learn to draw on inspirational written word, visual material, or other sources all participants bring to the seminar. You are responsible for providing your own drawing supplies (or modeling materials if you prefer 3 dimensional work). *Register for each class or admission seprately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00 *Register for each class or admission seprately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00

Evergreens Aesthetics and Arboriculture

Saturday October 9th, 2 PM - 5 PM at Hakone Estate & Gardens 21000 Big Basin Way, Saratoga CA. Lecture meets in the Crafts Area. See hands-on practice policy above. An introduction to the character, uses, and pruning of woody evergreens in Japanese Gardens. Learn planting design, growing environment, physiology, life cycle, varieties, design uses, buying, planting, pruning, and problems of evergreens. Learn holistic integration of aesthetics, horticulture, and problem solving, especially how to prioritize seemingly contradictory information. Hands-on pruning practice, if any, shall be on materials we bring to classroom. Bring your own container plants, cut branches, hand-shears, and/or photos of plants. *Register for each class or admission seprately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00 *Register for each class or admission seprately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00

A Japanese Touch to Native Garden Design

Saturday November 6th, 10 AM – 1 PM at Hakone Estate & Gardens 21000 Big Basin Way, Saratoga CA. Slideshow meets in the Cultural Exchange Center. Want to bring back the natives? Want to live in nature? Want to go beyond ad-hoc collections of individual plants? Want to create topographic, geologic, hydrologic, climatic, and vegetative garden scenery evoking your favorite natural landscapes? Want to harmonize architecture with its environs? The native garden & dwelling places the world calls Japanese Gardens offer composition principles, materials choices, construction techniques, and maintenance practices you can use in a variety of settings. Learn about these, as well as California's natural landscapes and their Japanese and CA garden analogs, in an introductory survey. Hands-on pruning practice, if any, shall be on materials we bring to classroom. Bring your own container plants, cut branches, hand-shears, and/or photos of plants. *Register for each class or admission separately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00 *Register for each class or admission separately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00

Japanese Maple Aesthetics and Arboriculture

Saturday, November 6th, 2 - 5 PM at Hakone Estate & Gardens, 21000 Big Basin Way, Saratoga CA. Lecture meets in the Crafts Area. An introduction to the character uses, culture, and pruning of Japanese Maples. Learn about the growing environment, physiology, life cycle, varieties, design uses, buying, planting, culture, and problems of Japanese Maples. Learn holistic integration of aesthetics, sound horticulture, and problem solving, especially how to prioritize seemingly contradictory information. Hands-on pruning practice, if any, shall be on materials we bring to classroom. Bring your own container plants, cut branches, hand-shears, and/or photos of plants. *Register for each class or admission separately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00 *Register for each class or admission separately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00

Traditional Japanese Gardens

Saturday December 4th, 10 AM - 1 PM at Hakone Estate & Gardens, 21000 Big Basin Way, Saratoga CA. Lecture & slideshow meets in the Cultural Exchange Center. Learn about the elements of Japanese home & garden layout, construction, and maintenance using inspirational images from the instructors' study of gardens in Japan, lecture, chalk board, question, and answer. Topics include: Human use; site characteristics; artistic expression; historical architecture & garden styles; indoor-outdoor relationships; structures; enclosure; topography; uses of stone; water features; plants; design devices such as forced perspective, diagonal and triangular movement, borrowed scenery, hide & real; parallels to other traditions; learning resources and more. *Register for each class or admission seprately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00 *Register for each class or admission seprately Less than ("<") 24 hours prior single admission $40.00 < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $35.00 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes,* $30.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior single admission $35.00 Retuning student < 24 hours prior multiple admissions/classes* $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior single admission $30.00 Retuning student 24 hours prior multiple classes* $25.00 Retuning student introducing a friend for free $40.00 Returning student's introduced guest $0.00

Learn Landscape Construction - Hands-on

Learn Landscape Construction Hands-on. Join Peter Bowyer and the Oakland-Fukuoka Sister City Association at our Torii Landscape, located in the Lakeside Garden Center, Lakeside Park, Oakland, CA. Learn skills you can use and talk shop with a pro while volunteering. Saturday morning workdays are scheduled for September 4th and October 2nd. Current projects include: Rock placement, building a sea-cliff "gogan-ishi-gumi" and a river cobble beach; Plumbing, instlling an automatic pond-refill line. Future projects may include: Pond shell repair, building islands in the ponds, pond ecosystem design/installation; large tree removal.

Other Classes and instruction

Peter also speaks at garden clubs, nurseries and community colleges. He has led Merritt College Aesthetic Pruning Club service-learning projects at numerous locations, including Hakone Estate & Gardens and the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt. He has developed and led workshops for county & municipal parks departments and given instruction to city tree workers. His expertise includes French-intensive vegetable gardening. In that capacity, he was a main stage speaker at the San Francisco Landscape Garden Show. He also taught classes at the UCSC Farm & Garden. . Other classes