About me
Hello, I’m Maryann!
I discovered the aesthetic pruning approach taught by Dennis Makishima in Oakland California. It was the first time I realized there was a way to prune trees with design intent.
Maryann Lewis
Maryann Lewis is an APA Certified Aesthetic Pruner® and a cofounder and past president of the Aesthetic Pruners Association. She began teaching in 2005 as an adjunct instructor at the Academy of Art San Francisco and in 2012 began teaching various aesthetic pruning classes with the Marin Master Gardeners Pruning Guild. Maryann was a guest instructor for the Fresno Central High School Agriculture Department in 2015 and was a lead instructor for two North American Japanese Garden Association pruning workshops in 2014 and 2015. In 2022 and 2023 she was one of three pruning instructors for the International Japanese Garden Training Center’s Waza to Kokoro seminar. Maryann has taught various workshops and given presentations for the Aesthetic Pruners Association, The Gresham Japanese Garden, the American Conifer Society, The Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita Oregon, the JM Winery in Woodinville Washington as well as her own series of aesthetic pruning classes both as workshops and online presentations. She is based out of Portland, Oregon.
Aesthetic Pruning
See trees with new eyes.
Elevate your garden with confident, creative pruning. Using a design approach with your trees enables you consider garden context, tree health and a long term plan to achieve your goals.
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