The art of pleaching

[RobRainford]

thats impressive, better than your run of the mill conifers!

 

tony: they've been pruned, they must be bad, best fell and replant!

[David Humphries]

Another example near where I work, not quite the art of the first post.

 

This time Lime.

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

thats impressive, better than your run of the mill conifers!

 

tony: they've been pruned, they must be bad, best fell and replant!

 

Your getting as sarcastic as me! save your career!

 

leave the gob.hite stuff to me, i dont care about the future!

[David Goss]

Wow that's brilliant! I have never seen that before. Is there no supports for the branches at all? It looks too regular not to have something supporting them, plus I can't see very well on my iPhone, it's just too wee

[Daniël Bos]

It's very common in the Netherlands, in public spaces (council owned green spaces, car parks etc, not just parks) as well as round private gardens etc.

 

Another form currently popular in NL is where all the branches are trained and pruned to the same height to form a flat disk of green on a trunk, no idea what it's called though?

[David Humphries]

Wow that's brilliant! I have never seen that before. Is there no supports for the branches at all? It looks too regular not to have something supporting them, plus I can't see very well on my iPhone, it's just too wee

 

 

There appear to be thin upright supports for each tree David, with bamboo canes between the branches.

 

 

It's very common in the Netherlands, in public spaces (council owned green spaces, car parks etc, not just parks) as well as round private gardens etc.

 

Another form currently popular in NL is where all the branches are trained and pruned to the same height to form a flat disk of green on a trunk, no idea what it's called though?

 

Thanks for the info, Rover

 

 

Willem, shame that you deleted that link.

 

Although probably not pleaching, theres nonetheless some fine & interestingly managed urban trees in those shots

 

 

Close up for David........

 

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[David Goss]

Ok I see it now thanks monkey D you is da man

[David Humphries]

Ok I see it now thanks monkey D you is da man

 

 

No, I is 'A' man

 

 

 

 

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[willem]

I've uploaded som pic's of a special kind of treeform. Very well known in the south of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. These trees have been around for ages and had a special place in the community. They are shaped this way because they wer used as a stage for dancing parties when a young couple married. The married couple had to dance on the smaller and higher platform. Almost always Tillia and some of them very old.

Is this called pleaching? And do you have these tree in England?

 

 

 

 

 

This is a pleaching object which our company has restored and maintained for almost 10 years now. This is an unique archway made of fruittrees (pear). Ít's 500 meters long and exists out of 1100 seperate trees. It was used as an shadowed archway for transporting the fruit from the big orchards it was once standing in. It had a small railway track with in the trees to transport the fruit.

I'll post some better pic's. This one is from the internet.

 

[David Humphries]

Great shots Willem, thanks for sharing.

 

I don't think I have ever seen that type of tree forming in the UK before.

 

I guess it's possible that someone transported the style here & there may be examples hidden away in villages or parks. Will be interesting to see if any one knows?

 

 

 

 

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