specialty technique of pruning and training branches or vines. generally horizontally and where they may be interwoven. often to form an arbor. wall~ or arching tunnel.
pleaching (Wikipedia)
Pleaching or plashing is a technique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge creating a fence, hedge or lattices. Trees are planted in lines, and the branches are woven together to strengthen and fill any weak spots until the hedge thickens. Branches in close contact may grow together, due to a natural phenomenon called inosculation, a natural graft. Pleach also means weaving of thin, whippy stems of trees to form a basketry effect.
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