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Advanced Gardening Tutorial: Pleaching

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Today’s feature is from English Cottage Gardening with information and details on Pleaching:

A pleached hedge is one in which branches have been bent down or interwoven to form a living wall. This very ancient technique was known to the Romans and mentioned by Julius Caesar who saw it used as a military obstacle in Flanders. In Much Ado about Nothing, Shakespeare refers to “Walking in a thick pleached alley in my orchard”. In more modern times, it is a technique used by some farmers to make their hedges more secure.

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Since pleaching is an activity of farmers, a busy and practical group, it should come as no surprise that it is a straightforward, undemanding process. The tools are simple, a sharp pocketknife, a pair of pruning shears, and hedge clippers.

This one’s a little too much for me, unless there’s a way to pleach evergreens (lol)–I’m out of luck. All my other trees are single species and I’m out of room for more. However, I thought the information and details were really interesting, just had to share with Tipnut readers :) .

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