#pleaching

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Baby Gruenwald was one of the few to show up at Wortland’s parole hearing in 1952, heartily recommending he be released, as Halloween was coming and the baby needed somebody to scissorhand his hedges (though nobody called it scissorhanding back then, they called it cruickshanking, as there was this guy named Cruickshank who was awesome at it).

This is my first attempt at pleaching trees. I planted the lime (linden) trees (bare root) in the winter, built a trellis frame, lobbed off the tops and started training the branches horizontally. There are lots of buds on the branches and so it should look a little more impressive in spring. I'll post more photographs then. 

PLEACHING.

Pleaching or plashing was common in gardens from the late Middle Ages until the 18th century. This technique is a kind of weaving of the branches of deciduous trees or shrubs to form a living fence. Sometimes branches woven together grow together, a natural grafting known as inosculation. Sir Walter Scott brought the technique back to popularity in England when he described such a fence in The Fortunes of Nigel.

Pleaching: technique of weaving branches of trees to create hedges, and occasionally inosculation occurs where two branches of the same species grow together