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Hornbeam Training Advice
Hi,
I have an area at the botoom of the garden that it fairly heavily shaded by some hornbeams lining the boundary. Since very little can grow I was planning on taking them all out. However, looking around online I would like to use them as a screen but with the leaves starting above the fence and have it defoliated below the fence. Basically like this I found online which is a pleached one:
I went out and took all the lower branches off today and it has let loads of light in but the leaves are growing too high up so there are large gaps between the tree and the top of the fence (expected as it hasn't been trained to be pleached).
So I wanted some advice on how best to achieve the the look in the above picture? Do I pollard it to the fence and train it to achieve a pleached hedge with the new growth from that? I wanted to underplant like this picture has but with cottage garden plants instead of the low hedge.
Any advice is much appreciated.
Here are some pictures after I took the lower branches out today:
I have an area at the botoom of the garden that it fairly heavily shaded by some hornbeams lining the boundary. Since very little can grow I was planning on taking them all out. However, looking around online I would like to use them as a screen but with the leaves starting above the fence and have it defoliated below the fence. Basically like this I found online which is a pleached one:
I went out and took all the lower branches off today and it has let loads of light in but the leaves are growing too high up so there are large gaps between the tree and the top of the fence (expected as it hasn't been trained to be pleached).
So I wanted some advice on how best to achieve the the look in the above picture? Do I pollard it to the fence and train it to achieve a pleached hedge with the new growth from that? I wanted to underplant like this picture has but with cottage garden plants instead of the low hedge.
Any advice is much appreciated.
Here are some pictures after I took the lower branches out today:
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