Learn to prune like NYBG! In this course, our plant experts guide you through essential pruning techniques for woody plants like small trees and shrubs, provide insight on why and when to prune, as well as give constructive feedback on your own pruning project. This course includes pre-recorded lectures and pruning demos filmed here across NYBG’s landmark 250 acres.
This course includes tools and materials that students will need to purchase separately. Information will be provided via Canvas one week prior to the course start date in the Welcome Module.
Over the course of 2 weeks, you’ll be given access to a new online module each Wednesday that teaches you the basic principles of pruning. You will have one week to complete the assigned coursework and participate in the discussion board for each module, and you’ll get live feedback from your instructor when you turn in your final project at the end of the course.
Week 1: Explore pruning principles for landscape plants, including when and why to prune woody plants.
Week 2: Learn pruning techniques, from making the first cut to maintaining your newly pruned plants, including practicing what you have learned hands-on as your final project.
Course length is 2 weeks with content released weekly on Wednesdays. When you sign up for a course, you select one of the following sessions to enroll in:
You’ll have access to the course’s Welcome Module one week prior to the start date. Upon completion of the course, you’ll have a reading period which extends 30 days past the course end date.
Richard Smith is the Director of the School of Professional Horticulture and serves as the Program Coordinator for NYBG Continuing Education’s Horticulture Certificate Program. Smith is a graduate of the University of Florida where he published research on specialty crop production. He’s worked in horticulture for 15 years and horticulture education for over 10 years with experience as a master gardener in both public and private organizations.
Mobee Weinstein is Foreman of Gardeners at The New York Botanical Garden. Weinstein holds a BS in Plant Studies from Lehman College, and is a graduate of NYBG’s School of Professional Horticulture. She is a certified NOFA Organic Land Care Professional and Pesticide Applicator and has more than 40 years of experience in the care of landscape plants.
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