Canopy Care is the Holistic Pruning practice of Andrew Tysinger in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Holistic Pruning is the organic pruning of landscape plants  with bonsai technique and the knowledge of plant physiology, working in harmony with the way they grow. It looks completely natural and the plants have a positive reaction-  being more productive and living longer.

The conventional method of pruning ignores the way trees are growing and induces a stress response.

If you have a garden that you’d like to look great, fit its surroundings, and be more healthy and productive, talk with Andrew and arrange for a free consult.

The first pruning program in the United States was pioneered by bonsai master Dennis Makishima at Merritt College in Oakland in 1986. His students expressed an interest in the pruning of landscape trees using bonsai techniques. The demand for pruning of gardens in the Bay Area in this way was realized, and Holistic Pruning was born.