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Bill Castellon will show and tell how to design and build a garden celebrating anywhere by employing the aesthetics and methods developed in Japan. Bill is a landscape Contractor out of Oakland California, USA. He and his crew build Japanese style gardens and other-regional naturalistic gardens. Placing rocks is their specialty. Bill's other specialties are pruning and bonsai. Bill learned garden building with Mas Imazumi and pruning with Dennis Makishima. He spent a month at Kinkaku ji as the guest of Tokushirou Tamane head gardener. Bill has made presentations for the International Symposium of Japanese Gardens, North American Japanese Garden Association, and Contributes regularly to Sukiya Living Magazine . His company has built a number of gardens In the US with the JDA Suirakuen crew From Japan. His broad interdisciplinary experience in fostering and rehabilitating such gardens, and familiarity with the integrated living environment developed in Japan inform his garden building. Bill is also active in the East Bay Bonsai Society, as a master teacher for the Merritt College Bonsai and Aesthetic Pruning Clubs, in the Aesthetic Pruner's Association and NAJGA.