Join us for a “natural pruning” demonstration by Leslie Buck, who specializes in pruning landscapes over time so naturally you can’t tell they’ve been touched. Leslie will demonstrate easy-to-learn techniques you can apply in your gardens by using pre-cut branches of native plants. She will also give a brief reading from her garden memoir, "Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto,” published by Timber Press, describing her adventures with garden craftsmen in some of the most wild (rather than sheared), and beautifully pruned native gardens in the world—gardens tended with heart.”
Cutting Back earned a NYTimes book review, Washington Post and SF Chronicle articles and an interview by the NPR Program, Cultivating Place—links to this “interview: and a “photo diary” of Kyoto gardens can be found on her website: lesliebuckauthor.com. Leslie will have books for sale, but you can also bring pre-purchased books ordered from local bookstores or Amazon for her to sign if you wish.
Leslie Buck has been an aesthetic pruner and garden consultant (designing established gardens) over two decades. Her own gardens were featured in May 2018 on the Bringing Back the Native Garden Tour (see photos on her public Facebook personal page or Instagram). She trained at Merritt College, holds a fine arts degree from UC Berkeley and Bordeaux School of Fine Arts and for many years did native plant excursions with Stew Winchester. Leslie has worked, taught and volunteered in hundreds of landscapes including Tassajara Zen Monastery and Portland Japanese Garden. In 2000, Leslie trained with Uetoh Zoen, one the the oldest and most highly acclaimed landscape companies in Japan—a three season journey which became Cutting Back.
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Cutting Back earned a NYTimes book review, Washington Post and SF Chronicle articles and an interview by the NPR Program, Cultivating Place—links to this “interview: and a “photo diary” of Kyoto gardens can be found on her website: lesliebuckauthor.com. Leslie will have books for sale, but you can also bring pre-purchased books ordered from local bookstores or Amazon for her to sign if you wish.
Leslie Buck has been an aesthetic pruner and garden consultant (designing established gardens) over two decades. Her own gardens were featured in May 2018 on the Bringing Back the Native Garden Tour (see photos on her public Facebook personal page or Instagram). She trained at Merritt College, holds a fine arts degree from UC Berkeley and Bordeaux School of Fine Arts and for many years did native plant excursions with Stew Winchester. Leslie has worked, taught and volunteered in hundreds of landscapes including Tassajara Zen Monastery and Portland Japanese Garden. In 2000, Leslie trained with Uetoh Zoen, one the the oldest and most highly acclaimed landscape companies in Japan—a three season journey which became Cutting Back.
Join us for a “natural pruning” demonstration by Leslie Buck, who specializes in pruning landscapes over time so naturally you can’t tell they’ve been touched. Leslie will demonstrate easy-to-learn techniques you can apply in your gardens by using pre-cut branches of native plants. She will also give a brief reading from her garden memoir, "Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto,” published by Timber Press, describing her adventures with garden craftsmen in some of the most wild (rather than sheared), and beautifully pruned native gardens in the world—gardens tended with heart.”
Cutting Back earned a NYTimes book review, Washington Post and SF Chronicle articles and an interview by the NPR Program, Cultivating Place—links to this “interview: and a “photo diary” of Kyoto gardens can be found on her website: lesliebuckauthor.com. Leslie will have books for sale, but you can also bring pre-purchased books ordered from local bookstores or Amazon for her to sign if you wish.
Leslie Buck has been an aesthetic pruner and garden consultant (designing established gardens) over two decades. Her own gardens were featured in May 2018 on the Bringing Back the Native Garden Tour (see photos on her public Facebook personal page or Instagram). She trained at Merritt College, holds a fine arts degree from UC Berkeley and Bordeaux School of Fine Arts and for many years did native plant excursions with Stew Winchester. Leslie has worked, taught and volunteered in hundreds of landscapes including Tassajara Zen Monastery and Portland Japanese Garden. In 2000, Leslie trained with Uetoh Zoen, one the the oldest and most highly acclaimed landscape companies in Japan—a three season journey which became Cutting Back.
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Cutting Back earned a NYTimes book review, Washington Post and SF Chronicle articles and an interview by the NPR Program, Cultivating Place—links to this “interview: and a “photo diary” of Kyoto gardens can be found on her website: lesliebuckauthor.com. Leslie will have books for sale, but you can also bring pre-purchased books ordered from local bookstores or Amazon for her to sign if you wish.
Leslie Buck has been an aesthetic pruner and garden consultant (designing established gardens) over two decades. Her own gardens were featured in May 2018 on the Bringing Back the Native Garden Tour (see photos on her public Facebook personal page or Instagram). She trained at Merritt College, holds a fine arts degree from UC Berkeley and Bordeaux School of Fine Arts and for many years did native plant excursions with Stew Winchester. Leslie has worked, taught and volunteered in hundreds of landscapes including Tassajara Zen Monastery and Portland Japanese Garden. In 2000, Leslie trained with Uetoh Zoen, one the the oldest and most highly acclaimed landscape companies in Japan—a three season journey which became Cutting Back.
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