This time he did not lower his eyes until she vanished along the pleached alley.

We came down from the hillside into the grove, and made our sacrifice on the altar of pleached horns.

Pleached trees will grow far wider than the frames that you see them growing on in nurseries might suggest.

Designers and nurserymen are constantly experimenting with an expanding range of pleached trees.

Planting a pleached hedge has been made much easier in recent years by the availability of ready-pleached trees.

The visitor approaches the hall and gardens along an avenue of pleached lime trees which are clipped each year.

Apart from that you were free to mooch anywhere within those two acres bordered by a high pleached hedge.

A pair of 18th century gates lead to pleached limes and a statue of a gladiator.

Pleaching: A form of pruning by intertwining stems from woody plants as in a pleached hedge.

For large gardens and parks the plane tree, Platanus x acerifolia, makes impressive pleached alleys.

There are no pleached linden trees, like the ones she used to make an outdoor room at the entrance of a French manor house outside Chicago.

He rolled the candlesticks in a piece of sacking, and thrust them into the centre of the pleached hedge where it was thickest.

This garden enclosed by pleached trees, with herbaceous plants around a central fountain, has done much to improve and soften the severity of the forecourt.

The design was held together by a row six elegant pleached limes, regimented next to the edible tower like the slabs of a neighbouring estate.

There is also a gatehouse and a pleached avenue of lime trees, believed to be the longest such avenue in the United Kingdom.

"Pleached alley--can you stand that expression?

An English country garden might contain a formal carpet bed, an avenue of pleached limes, an ornamental pond and fountain, and a well-filled perennial border.

Amid the pleached pear walks and the rose arbors are sculptures by Jacob Epstein and Anthony Caro.

In the garden, between the pleached hedges, it seemed almost warm, as though the sleeping trees breathed tempered air as well as cutting off the bleak wind.

Examples of living pleached structures include Richard Reames's red alder bench and Axel Erlandson's sycamore tower.

Now, following their appearance in Chelsea Flower Show gardens, often in the form of "hedges on stilts," enthusiasm for pleached trees is filtering across the country.

The use of pleached trees to establish the architecture of a garden is one of the defining aspects of 17th and 18th-century design, particularly in France and Italy.

Pleached Trees Q. On a recent trip to England, I saw what was called a pleached beech allee.

The South Lawn limes are double rows of pleached red twigged limes on either side of the South Lawn, which were planted in 1952.

Rows of beeches were uprooted and replaced by pleached lime trees; hedges and orchards were replanted, all to conform to a 1740 engraving by Thomas Badeslade.