Yuki Nara-aesthetic pruning expert/japanese maple pruning specialist

I met Yuki at Doug Roths japanese garden pruning workshop. Yuki is a specialist in pruning Japanese maples. She is based in San Fransisco and teaches aesthetic pruning at the Merritt college in Oakland, California. Her website is wayofmaple.com. I was lucky enough to lure her into spending a day working with me while she was visiting in New York. It was very interesting and educational for me to watch her work and then later to study what she had done in the trees. as well, it was so comforting and inspirational to talk with her about our passions for pruning. Comforting because it was good to know i wasn't alone or weird in my compulsive obsessiveness regarding aesthetic pruning. Maybe i shouldn't regard it as compulsive obsessiveness...maybe we can just say its bliss.