Tips on How to Create a Hedge on Stilts (Pleaching Trees)

In this video we discuss three different methods for achieving a beautiful pleached hedge effect. We give tips on how to do it on different budgets and the costs involved. We explain in detail how to make the structural supports required to ensure your new trees thrive and add year round structural interest to your garden.

Costs for the total project include Tax (20%) and delivery (should of said that in the video)

Trees suitable for pleaching include:

Deciduous Trees:
Carpinus betulus (Hornbeam)
Fagus sylvatica (Beech)
Tilia x europaea (Lime)
Acer campestre (Native Field Maple)
Fraxinus excelsior (Common Ash)
Gleditsia tricanthos (Honey Locust)
Malus (Crab Apple)
Parrotica persica (Persian Ironwood)
Plantains x Hispanica (London Plane)

Evergreen Trees:
Magnolia grandiflora
Photinia x fraseri (Red Robin)
Prunus laurocerasus (Cherry Laurel)
Osmanthus x Burkwoodii (Holly Tea Olive)
Viburnum plicatum. tomentosum
Elaeagnus x Ebbingei (Oleaster)
Quercus ilex (Holm Oak)

0:00 Intro
0:46 What is Pleaching?
1:47 What trees can be pleached?
3:01 How to achieved the pleached hedge look
3:36 Do it yourself - 3 options for different budgets
3:38 Method 1 - Planting pre-pleached trees and the cost
5:34 the benefits of pleached hedges
6:42 Method 2 - Planting standard trees and adding structures and the cost
8:09 Method 3 - planting small whips and training onto a structure
9:50 In summary
11:01 The lime trees prior to pleaching
11:37 Making the bamboo structure
15:24 Adding the supports
17:45 How to strap the trees to the supports
19:24 Adding the bamboo structure
27:03 Job done!

See our video ‘Pleaching - your questions answered’ in which I answer your questions that arose after watching this video    • Q&A on Pleaching Trees   and also ‘Winter care of pleached trees’ for long term care advice    • Pleached Trees - Considerations for G...