About
The Maple Maiden is Melody Jo — a Portland artist and gardener whose fineline ink work and her pruning share the same discipline: patience, structure, and attention to the smallest branch. She started The Maple Maiden to give ornamental trees and shrubs the careful, by-hand pruning that big tree services rarely have time for.
Author of a forthcoming illustrated guide to Portland's garden plants and their pruning — written for homeowners, and for the tree pros who'd rather refer the fine work out.
She also photographs Japanese maples — their branch architecture through the seasons. That side passion sharpens the artist's eye she brings to every cut: pruning informed by looking closely, season after season, at how a maple wants to grow.
