Pleaching
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Pleaching or plashing is a technique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge creating a fence, hedge, or lattices. Trees are planted in lines and the branches are woven together to st
A hedge laid using pleaching
An allée of pleached lime trees at Arley Hall in Cheshire, England
Inosculation
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Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together in a manner biologically similar to the artificial process of grafting. It customarily results when t
Pleaching
…together to strengthen and fill any weak spots until the hedge thickens. Branches in close contact may grow together, due to a natural phenomenon called inosculation, a natural graft. Pleach also means weaving thin, whippy stems of trees forming a basketry effect. Pleaching or plashing (an early synonym) was common…
Beech tree trunks conjoined
A "husband and wife" blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) at Lynncraigs farm, Dalry, North Ayrshire, Scotland
The John Wesley tree
Conjoined sycamore maples