pleach


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form or weave into a braid or braids

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interlace the shoots of

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In other words, PLEACH uses less than 1/2 of the regions used in the case of LEACH.
The competitors demonstrated two different styles of hedging - stake and pleach and farmers.
Beatrice was discovering late in her life the fruits of love in this "pleached bower" where honeysuckles "advance their pride / Against the power that bred it" (3.1.10-11).
Thevenot also encourages novice gardeners to become familiar with other living architecture found in garden design, including topiary and pleached plants.
The black marble ceiling of the external undercroft is chaste rather than ironically fascistic, reflecting and inverting people and the birches and pleached plane trees in Aldermanbury Square.
You also might want to experiment with some specialized design techniques, such as using pruning to create a pleached tunnel of ironwood trees or a living fence of espalier currants.
IN ONE OF HER most verbally expansive moments in Much Ado About Nothing, Hero directs her attendant "gentlewomen," Ursula and Margaret, on where to have Beatrice positioned to overhear the "honest slanders" and other misrepresentations through which Beatrice is to be led to believe that Benedick loves her: And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter, like favorites Made proud by princes, that advance their pride Against that power that bred it.
There is a traditional walled garden, partly planted parterre style with box and sage hedges, cherry trees, a pleached beech hedge, herbaceous borders and a rose covered walkway.
There were nice touches, with the pin cushion box, pleached plane trees and an amazingly lush lawn in The Telegraph garden and No Man's Land's wonderful story of the First World War trenches.
Some are 'pleached' trees with square edges, because Mr Wilson said designer Andrew Taylor wanted the park to have 'defined edges'.
- Jesse Greenwood, Bude, Cornwall YOU 2 could add a pleached beech hedge - a common feature in the grandest gardens.
Low-level topiary and pleached copper beech trees provide structure and beautiful colour all year round, as the copper beech leaves turn a stunning golden colour over winter.
He concentrated mainly on the village, planting of trees for shaping, especially Irish Yews and Cabbage Palm for exotic effect, hedges and pleached trees.
Ornamentation also became increasingly popular and elaborate, and included statues, fountains, sundials and the pleached alle, which was a walk lined with a sort of hedge on stilts.