Pruning Young Fruit Trees, From Choosing Tools to Making the Right Cut

Location:  Santa Fe Botanical Garden at Museum Hill, 715 Camino Lejo


Join Tracy Neal, certified arborist and long time Santa Fe landscaper, as we prune our young fruit trees.  This is the class for you if you have recently planted a fruit tree or are thinking about beginning to grow fruit at home. Tracy will recommend tools, discuss different styles of pruning, and you will get a chance to make some cuts on the trees in the Santa Fe Botanical Garden orchard.  Bring your questions and warm clothes; we will be outside. 

Tracy Neal has worked in nurseries since 1974.  He moved to Santa Fe in 1986 to run the nursery at Santa Fe Greenhouses.  There, he introduced many new and under-utilized plants to the Santa Fe market.  During that time he also taught classes at Santa Fe Community College. In 1995 he began working with a local landscape company.  His landscape work included everything from small gardens in town to large country estates.  He now works as a private consultant and landscape designer. Tracy has been a Certified Arborist since 2000, with a special fondness for pruning fruit trees. As a founding member of the Santa Fe chapter of the National Xeriscape Council, Tracy helped write the first Xeriscape Plant List for Santa Fe. In 2001, he created the Recommended Woody Plant List for the City of Santa Fe, and later helped produce the Transition Zone Plant List for Santa Fe County and the Low Water Use Plant List for the Office of the State Engineer.