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     Marijke & Piet.

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Abies procera “Glauca” (Noble Fir) tidy-up

Niwaki-trees annual pruning and trimming for shape and size

Midoritsumi or ‘green picking’ the pine-trees

Momiage, removing dead needles from pine

Trimming ‘the five Islands of immortality’ topiary box

Trimming the topiary O-karikomi (buxus) sculpture

Trimming the Juniperus media topiary shrubs

Hako-zukuri style Prunus lusitanica “tree” tuning

Bamboo pruning, Pleioblastus pygmaeus

Trimming the Thuja occidentalis hedgerow

Herb garden box-hedge trimming

Trimming the Taxus baccata (yew) hedgerow

Tuning the hako-zukuri part of our main o-karikomi box topiary

Chamaecyparis Lawsonia trimming

Cryptomeria Japonica “elegans”, fukinaoshi-pruning

Timing for box-topiary trimming

Karikomi style Prunus lusitanica, pruning for shape and growth

O-karikomi style Prunus lusitanica, pruning for shape

Hako-zukuri style Prunus lusitanica “tree”

Partial buxus clipping for way through