In message , Kay
writes
Very similar is an espalier pyracantha at York Gate - main branches
trained horizontally along the house at two foot intervals, tightly
pruned so they become a 6inch wide garland of leaves and berries.
Since you don't need the house for support, doing the same thing in the
open would be pleaching.
I thought of this because my daughter in Norfolk has a small garden that
goes uphill from their living-room window, with the fence about 20 feet
away; the neighbours' garden slants similarly upward, so their back door
is at a level half-way up the fence. They have now built a deck, which,
being level, is also half-way up the fence, with the result that the
neighbours hover waist-high above this 7-foot fence! I was trying to
think of something that would be higher but not oppressive, and I
thought that perhaps pleaching standard pyracanthas might do the trick?
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Klara, Gatwick basin
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