SST Tf fl l Screen star Tie in and interlace the flexible young shoots of lime, ash, beech or hornbeam trees that are being grown as a high-level, narrow,
pleached hedge.
On the basis of product types, privacy screens can be categorized into panels, frames, outdoor shades, patio furniture, fence, nets, hedges,
pleached trees, free-standing walls and other products.
We also learned that anything that was taken out of the hedge, and that couldn't be used as a stake, as infill or be
pleached, was put on the 'Baldrick' pile - so called as there would be 'cunning plan' for it later.
For garden planting, Mark says
pleached trees are on the up, and an increased interest in the planting style which mixes formal topiary spheres with grasses and perennials.
ERDDIG, WREXHAM (nationaltrust.org.uk/erddig) This 1,200-acre landscaped pleasure park, designed by William Emes, features a fully restored 18th century garden with avenues of
pleached limes, colourful herbaceous borders, trained fruit trees and formal hedges.
Hawthorns are planted and when half-grown, they are "
pleached"--gashed partway across the trunk and bent over, inducing them to become a thicket.
Designed as a cube to create a light and airy space, it has a geometric theme using straight lines reinforced by a boundary of clipped
pleached hornbeam hedges and rigid rows of plants.
returning from my walk, The
pleached frazzled asphalt
Geometric paths in a variety of natural stones featured in a number of gardens, fringed by billowing perennials, meadow flowers, rushes and grasses, with
pleached trees and other visual stunners, including birch, providing both height and architecture.
Geometric patterns, formed by expertly trained stems and branches of espalier and cordon trained apple and pear trees, line out the garden walls and skeletal topiary of
pleached lime tree avenues.
Beatrice was discovering late in her life the fruits of love in this "
pleached bower" where honeysuckles "advance their pride / Against the power that bred it" (3.1.10-11).
Thevenot also encourages novice gardeners to become familiar with other living architecture found in garden design, including topiary and
pleached plants.