How does it feel to stand in a garden " room " surrounded by seven-foot hedges or to walk down an emerald-green allee of pleached lime trees ( which look like skinny poles with big squares of leaves on their heads )?
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An allee called the George Walk, which is named after the Lab, who paces there, is lined with newly planted lime trees, which will eventually be pleached into architectural squares, and is underplanted with lime-colored lady's mantle and euphorbias.
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After the middle of the nineteenth century, English landowners were once again planting avenues, often shading the sweeping curves of a drive, but sometimes straight all�es of pleached limes, as Rowland Egerton's at Arley Hall, Cheshire, which survive in splendidly controlled form.
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The garden rooms include an Italian enclosure with box parterres; a formal rose garden laid out in a pattern based on one of the William Kent ceilings in the house; a French garden of pleached limes and plum trees which have been underplanted with spring bulbs; and a croquet lawn.
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This was not much seen in the American colonies, where a labor-intensive aesthetic has not been a feature of gardening : " Because of the time needed in caring for pleached all�es, " Donald Wyman noted, " they are but infrequently seen in American gardens, but are frequently observed in Europe ."
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In " Much Ado About Nothing ", Antonio reports ( I . ii . 8ff ) that the Prince and Count Claudio were " walking in a thick pleached alley in my orchard . " A modern version of such free-standing pleached fruit trees is sometimes called a " Belgian fence " : young fruit trees pruned to four or six wide Y-shaped crotches, in the candelabra-form espalier called a " palmette verrier ", are planted at close intervals, about two metres apart, and their branches are bound together to makes a diagonal lattice, a regimen of severe seasonal pruning; lashing of young growth to straight sticks and binding the joints repeat the pattern.
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In " Much Ado About Nothing ", Antonio reports ( I . ii . 8ff ) that the Prince and Count Claudio were " walking in a thick pleached alley in my orchard . " A modern version of such free-standing pleached fruit trees is sometimes called a " Belgian fence " : young fruit trees pruned to four or six wide Y-shaped crotches, in the candelabra-form espalier called a " palmette verrier ", are planted at close intervals, about two metres apart, and their branches are bound together to makes a diagonal lattice, a regimen of severe seasonal pruning; lashing of young growth to straight sticks and binding the joints repeat the pattern.
