Create a modern statement with pleaching
If you’re looking for a stylish, contemporary look for your garden, you can’t go past pleaching. This trend has taken off in recent years, revealing a multitude of interesting shapes and forms to give your garden a touch of elegance and distinction.
What is pleaching?
Pleaching
– which comes from the French word ‘plecher’, which means to braid – is a
method of shaping and training trees to create an elevated, interwoven hedge
that appears to be on stilts. Producing a pleached tree is a process of pruning
to achieve the desired tree shape and size.
Landscaping uses for pleached trees
When planted
in rows, the exposed, uniform trunks of pleached trees can add an architectural
element to your garden. Underplant with a secondary, low hedge or more informal
plantings to add dimension to the landscape.
Caring for your pleached trees
Pleached
trees are not for the time-poor gardener. In order to maintain the formal
effect of a pleached hedge, regular maintenance and pruning is required. However, new
modern pole pruning equipment makes it easy to maintain this look.