Looking to create a more secluded outdoor space? These are the trees to avoid that won't actually help screen your garden ...

Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus ... Designers and nurserymen are constantly experimenting with an expanding range of pleached trees. Crab apples and photinia are now common and I recently saw some ...

Pleached trees require minimal maintenance, regular watering and pruning a couple of times a year. There are a plethora of choices available from hornbeam to lime, purple beech and cherry laurel.

Predictably, the Victorians later fell upon these grand pleached ... with trees trained to form ceilings, tunnels and arbours. For me, the most impressive is in Switzerland - a hornbeam's perfect ...

she made a small inner square of pleached hornbeam trees, like a hedge on stilts, just around the dining area. When seated at the table, it feels airy and light. You look through the slender tree ...