Pleaching is an artistic tree-pruning technique that is put to good use in Europe, especially in France and Holland, but not at all here in Vancouver. It’s a fabulous way of creating a privacy screen ...

Sooner or later all gardeners realise that there is nothing new under the sun. Every trendy planting style, technique and design element is just a reinterpretation of what has gone before. The 26th ...

Pleaching is an artistic tree-pruning technique that is put to good use in Europe, especially in France and Holland, but not at all here in Vancouver. Why not? It’s a fabulous way of creating a ...

This month and next are prime times for sharpening your secateurs, since most fruit bushes and trees need pruning in summer for a better harvest the following year, and deciduous hedges must be ...

Pleaching is a European tradition for training a row of trees and the word “pleach” means to interweave branches to make a hedge. The lower foliage is removed from each trunk while the geometrically ...

Landscape architect Miranda Brooks and fellow contractor John Beitel describe in detail the French tradition and art of pleaching trees. So, John's got really good at it. I've got another guy I work ...

The parliamentary authorities have defended the practice of removing leaves by hand from trees at the Palace of Westminster rather than allowing nature to take its course each autumn. The Palace's ...

Trees are brilliant show-stoppers in a garden, be it by virtue of a great single specimen or a tree trained into an extraordinary shape. Peter Cook and Becky Northey have spent the past 25 years ...