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Tree shaping (also known by several other alternative names) uses living trees and other woody plants as the medium to create structures and art. There are a few different methods [2] used by the various artists to shape their trees, which share a common heritage with other artistic horticultural and agricultural practices, such as pleaching, bonsai, espalier, and topiary, and employing some ...
An architecture example of framing that becomes part of the installation is Cathedral of Hornbeams. The growth of 80 young hornbeams trees is guided by the framing creating living columns. 1 meter in diameter and 12 meters high. The plan is once the wooden framing rots it becomes mulch for the living trees.
Structure made with plane trees for the Baden-Württemberg State Horticultural Show in Nagold. Baubotanik is a building method in which architectural structures are created through the interaction of technical joints and plant growth.
John Claudius Loudon (8 April 1782 – 14 December 1843) was a Scottish botanist, garden designer and author, [1] born in Cambuslang in 1782. [2] He was the first to use the term arboretum in writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, collected for the purpose of scientific study. [3]
In Ireland, tree rings were often planted as a landscape embellishment on top of drumlins, and occasionally made use of an existing rath or ringfort by creation of a small additional bank. [6] The species used were similar to those in England, with a high proportion of beech and Scots pine, with smaller numbers of ash, oak, sycamore and other ...
Tree avenue in Normandy, France An avenue at Alexandra Park, London. In landscaping, an avenue (from the French), alameda (from the Portuguese and Spanish), or allée (from the French), is a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its Latin source venire ("to come") indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape ...
A planting strategy is a long-term strategy for the design, establishment and management of different types of vegetation in a landscape or garden. Planting can be established by directly employed gardeners and horticulturalists or it can be established by a landscape contractor (also known as a landscape gardener).
An arborist practicing tree care: using a chainsaw to fell a eucalyptus tree in a park at Kallista, Victoria.. Arboriculture (/ ˈ ɑːr b ər ɪ ˌ k ʌ l tʃ ər, ɑːr ˈ b ɔːr-/) [1] is the cultivation, management, and study of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants.