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Staying in touch has been difficult for all of us during this pandemic. APA members can now download the Wild Apricot Members app and sign in with the same email address and password for your APA account.

This app helps you:

• Interact with fellow members anywhere from your mobile device

• Register and make payments for events

• View all existing event registrations

• Update your member profile, including your address, phone and email

• View your membership card

In the June E-News, the North American Japanese Garden Association (NAJGA) interviewed Maryann Lewis, one of the co-founders of the APA, about aesthetic pruning. 

Save the date - Sunday, October 6, 2019, for APA's biennial Garden Tour.  There will be six gardens on tour. Check back for details about the gardens in the next few weeks.  To see a gallery of past tours, click here.

APA Tree Walk , May 14, 2019 at Osmosis Day Spa and Sanctuary in Freestone CA.  Tree Walks are open only to APA members and are typically limited to a manageable group size.  Michael Alliger, the pruner of the garden and Michael Stusser, the owner, guided us on the walk.  

Do you have questions about how to run a successful pruning business?

The APA has gathered some of our top pruning experts to discuss their strategies. We will be covering the following subjects:

Accounting/Taxes - Speaker: Diane Shields
Insurance - Speaker: Peter Bowyer
Retirement - Speaker: Randall Lee
Organizational systems/Scheduling - Speaker: Mary Gribbin

After a discussion of the above subjects, we will have a panel of 5 pruners (Allison Levin, Dan Villaume, Bruce Thompson, Nancy Buell, and Diane Bloomberg) discussing more pruning business topics. 

Please see the Events page for more information.