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Randall Lee will describe the growth, fostering and life-long care of a Japanese-style garden. He'll describe fostering freshly born gardens as well as remedial work on gardens in disrepair. Randall will highlight the role of plants, especially woody plants, in the Japanese living environment's garden component. Randall's specialties are Aesthetic pruning of ornamental trees and shrubs. He has made presentations for the North American Japanese Garden Association, Aesthetic Pruners Association, Merritt College Aesthetic Pruning Club, and numerous Bonsai Clubs in California. Randall brings over thirty years' experience specializing in Japanese black pines, Japanese maples, Japanese garden pruning, dwarf conifers, bonsai re-potting and pruning. Pruning consultations, lectures and bonsai workshops. His broader interdisciplinary experience in creating gardens, fostering their development and sustaining their infrastructure, and familiarity with the integrated living environment developed in Japan inform this presentation. Randall is also active in the East Bay Bonsai Society, as a master teacher for the Merritt College Bonsai and Aesthetic Pruning Clubs, and in the Aesthetic Pruners Association (Past President). He’s also a member of the American Conifer Society and North American Japanese Garden Association.