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Re: pleached trees

Subject: Re: pleached trees
From: Bill Kowalczyk
Date: Aug 29 2007 08:53:22 
Hi Portia,
Get your boss to send you on a study tour of any town in Holland, or
France, or Belgium, or Spain. 

There are many problems with pleached trees,
and all of them are because we will not do proper maintenance in this
country (IMHO) and that can partly be blamed on the notion that it is
possible to have "successful longer term planting of trees" when we
are being governed by short-term budgetry constraints.
The containers must be properly engineered for the job, with drainage
& 'soil' to suit and their size will directly limit the size to which
your tree may be allowed to grow.
There must be an appropriate (self-regulating) irrigation and
aeration system. 
You need good plants.
All this comes at a price and it is not the lowest tender!

...but here comes the bitter bit,
you have to prune them every year!
now that's not going to happen, is it? -not in the UK anyway!
by the time the tenders are sorted out and budgets cut by another 10%
and no-body knows what will happen next year let alone over the next
15, and what chance of the same people doing it each year so a proper
understanding of the job is maintained... 
blahblahblah
rant rant...

er, sorry
Excellent idea Portia, but they will only be short-term trees and
need to be replaced fairly regularly, hmm...? another thing our
continental cousins don't seem to have a problem with 

good luck

regards,
Bill



On 29 Aug 2007, at 09:23, Portia Howe wrote:


Hi there ladies and gents,
Any of you out there have experience of pleached tree management?
I have a proposal from a developer to plant ultimately large trees
in woefully small raised containers. Whilst I’m hoping to fend off
the container idea completely, I want to have an alternative to the
currently suggested species should the containers happen.
My query is, have any of you used pleached trees and if so what
management regime do you have/suggest. In your experience do they
require further training as they age and if so, what? Anyone have
examples of successful use of pleached trees in containers (a long
shot but worth a go). How have the public received them?
In fact anyone got examples of any sucessful longer term planting
of trees in containers at all... 
  Thanks all
  portia
  I


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