Garden Tours
The Art of Pruning Garden Tours
Browse the options below to see photos and descriptions of past garden tours.
East Bay Gardens (2019)
The 4th biennial garden tour was held on Sunday, October 6th. Gardens of the East Bay were featured, all beautifully and expertly pruned by APA Certified Aesthetic Pruners Dina Blackwell, Peter Bowyer, Jocelyn Cohen, Grant Foerster, Melissa Hyams, and Randall Lee. This year’s garden tour included an inspiring mix of gardens whose design and plant material range from Mediterranean dry summer and California natives to tropical palms to temperate climate deciduous trees and cottage style perennials. These gardens showcased the universality of aesthetic pruning’s basic principles.
FEATURED GARDENS:
FAIRCHILD GARDEN - Oakland
HYAMS GARDEN - San Leandro
MINICOZZI GARDEN - Piedmont
MORISHITA GARDEN - Oakland
NEARY GARDEN - Oakland
SCHINO GARDEN - San Leandro
East Bay Gardens (2017)
The third APA garden tour was held on October 21. We featured gardens of the East Bay which are beautifully and expertly pruned by APA Certified Aesthetic Pruners Leslie Buck, Yuki Nara, and Dan Villaume. Each of the four gardens makes unique use of its natural setting in the East Bay hills.
FEATURED GARDENS:
EVERAL MITCHELL GARDEN - Berkeley
GAYLE WILSON AND JOHN SIMMONS GARDEN - Oakland
ANNE AND DANIEL BOOKIN GARDEN - Oakland
QUIET CANYON GARDEN - Berkeley
Gardens of Marin County (2016)
The second APA garden tour, October 2, 2016, featured gardens of Marin County, which are beautifully and expertly pruned by APA Certified Aesthetic Pruners Leslie Buck, Bill Castellon, Grant Foerster, Yuki Nara, Ghislain de Taillandier, and Dan Villaume. The borrowed scenery of Marin’s oak woodlands, coast redwood and evergreen forests, and sparkling Bay vistas were the context for these APA Certified Aesthetic Pruners who interpret and render meaningful and evocative the gardens’ woody landscapes.
FEATURED GARDENS:
MCGOWAN AND MALONE GARDEN - San Rafael
COONEY GARDEN - Larkspur
CHAUNCEY GARDEN - Larkspur
HINDERBERGER GARDEN - Mill Valley
LEVINSON GARDEN - Mill Valley
Gardens of Bill Castellon (2015)
This was the first garden tour hosted by the APA. We featured the gardens of APA Certified Aesthetic Pruners and garden builder, Bill Castellon. These 6 gardens together are representative of the art and mechanics of traditional Japanese rock placement, garden building and aesthetic pruning. Each, in turn, differed in size, situation and scenery and the ways in which they engage the senses.
FEATURED GARDENS:
THE O'KANE GARDEN - Alameda
THE GHIGLIONE GARDEN - Alameda
THE BEERY/ABRAMSON GARDEN - Oakland
THE BOWYER GARDEN - Orinda