hi welcome back to garden ninja spring is here the Sun is out it's a perfect
day to demonstrate how to plant these pleached trees now pleached trees differ to
a regular container trees here that they've been trained on a frame and the
reason why that makes them slightly tricky to plant is it it's all about
spacing proportion and support so todays guide is going to be how to plant these in a
raised bed or in the ground and make sure that they look pristine so come on
let's get cracking!
So the example I'm using today is this pleached Oleaster and pleat trees are
brilliant if you've got small spaces but you need some privacy and they often use
me of my designs just that to break up an eyeline without taking up a huge
amount of space now the relatively slow growing and other than pruning them once
or twice a year to keep them in the shape of the frame they don't really
require a huge amount of maintenance so they're great for small gardens now in
this example at the hyper contemporary garden I'm going to use them to break up
some of the vista behind the garden to increase privacy and also give a
year-round interest because they're evergreen so what I had to do firstly is
mark up the spaces where they're going to be planted making sure that that
equidistant to each other so you can either take measure that's the first
thing to do so in this example I know that the bed is five meters wide and
I've got five peach trees each of a meter in width and if you space them
equidistantly across the back of the bed to start with another top tip when
you're using formal trees or topiary is to use the 'rule of odds' and what that
means is you really want to be using one, three, five, seven
etc because it just gives a much better design view
if you come to go for twos fours and sixes because sometimes it describes the
irregularities of the garden because unless your garden is perfectly even
like the twos the fours sixes and kind of draw your eye into those odd spaces that
don't quite match up so a good rule of thumb is go out and come to follow
that's one down four to go!
Stand back have a look at the eye line make any adjustments that are committed
to the ground
So I've got the five pleached trees in now and have checked and they're all level
and symmetrical now the next thing you're gonna have to do especially the
pleached trees is to then stake and support them so I'm going to show you now is by
using four of these stakes I'm going to drive them into the bed up to a height
of about here and then I'm going to create a brace using some of this to be
one behind the pleach trees that can then tie to what that will do is it will give
me a supportive frame so no matter one of the wind is blowing against them or
behind them it will keep the level now probably need to leave that in for maybe
two to three years until these are fully rooted established and firm you could
probably leave it in forever and it depends on how neat you are putting it
in
by using the rubber tree ties you can make sure the ties don't cut into the trunk or any of the
stems of the tree so using rubber ties is a must!
So the trees are now waiting for the supports been finished last night was
given a really good watering and even if it's been raining or they feel damp it's
really important planting new trees and shrubs to give them a thorough walk is
you ready to take that part putting them somewhere else in distress so give them
a water and help reduce the stress on the plant and ensure higher chances of success!
So the trees are now in and I think they look brilliant.
So I think its time for me and Barry to go in have a nice cup of tea and. maybe a biscuit
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