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Pleaching Use hornbeam to create a high-level 'pleached' hedge, great for a stylish, modern garden
In the case of "
pleaching," suitable trees were planted in a line, then woven into a dense hedge by tying branches together in crossing positions.
Pleaching is a method of growing trees close enough together for their branches to touch.
His first two books dealt with the lessons to be learned from French gardens and in one of these, The Parks, Promenades and Gardens of Paris (1869), his lifelong phobia for
pleaching trees and other unnatural uses of plants first surfaced.
For example,
pleaching interlaces or twines young branches and trunks on saplings together to form a hedge, archway, or tunnel.
Or explaining, simply and clearly, how to produce a wall of trees by "
pleaching".