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The usual concept of pruning is to cut conifers to maintain their natural to get rid of dead wood and carve in order to increase plant density. However, the legacy of another type of training has come to us through the centuries. There are three other methods defined that the ordinary to achieve the unusual size, and in many cases, a charming effect. These training methods are espalier, bonsai, and topiary work.
Espalier
The art of training of ornamental woody plants on a medium such as a wall, trellis or fence is known as espalier. In European gardens this practice stems from the need to use all available space for planting purposes. Gardeners found that when fruit trees were grown against the benevolent protection of a wall, the maturation process was accelerated.
The accumulation of heat from the sun on the wall with the shield he has offered against the cold winds and late frosts, have proved an advantage especially in regions where summers are too cool to ripen fruit grown in an open area.
A beautiful trellis can be developed using evergreens: ifs, Hollies, Firethorn, loquat, CLEI, Euonymus, Photinia, and Holly Olive are among those who lend admirably in this type of training. On stretches of high walls outline the Southern Magnolia is also a good subject for a trellis work, provided that its large leaves and habit fat growth are at an appropriate scale with its surroundings.
Bonsai
The Japanese, with their sense depths of aesthetics and love of plants and miniature gardens, have aroused our interest in the ancient oriental art of bonsai. Bonsai, is the practice of dwarfing a plant to create a replica of an old weathered tree in miniature. Various cultural resources have been developed for achieving this type of training. By cultivating the plant in a small container to restrict its root system, and controlling its top growth, it will become eventually dwarf.
By this method, trees such as pines become dwarf potted plants that can live for 1 or 2 hundred years or longer, under the leadership of the bonsai practitioner. Much attention is paid to the distribution of branches and stem form. To simulate antiquity, trunk and branches are sometimes given a bend or twist, which is held in place with support until the plant grows naturally in form provided.
Topiary
Topiary is the practice of training of ornamental woody plants in different shapes and unusual. According to this method trees and shrubs are pruned into formal designs through pruning. Plants can be shaped bird baths, sundials, animals, statues, spheres, spirals, and pyramids, in fact any object which is reproduced in topiarist wishes to simulate.
The topiary is rich in historical background and is especially associated with large formal properties of the past. The early Romans were used a scale developed, but the height of its popularity was reached during the sixteenth century – "The golden age of topiary. In the early eighteenth century, its use has declined because of the tendency of time to break with the formal gardens.
In Gardens today topiaries, in its simplest forms has a definite place. One of the most common of these is a well-clipped hedge. This hedge, always perfectly symmetrical, may be rectangular, round or triangular, or it can be cut into a series of steps or archways. Frequently single arch will held in hedge funds, which will mark the entrance to the garden.
Some conifers grow, then cut them using one of any of these methods of these methods interesting.
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