Talk:Pleaching
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A picture of something that was pleached would be helpful. It would make it a little easier to see what pleaching is. Also, the lower portion of text should be incorperated into the other text and reworded.
Plantboy1 23:55, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] speculation without references
I removed the two paragraphs at the end because they appear to be presenting speculation without references. Wordage such as "it is pleasant to imagine how the pleaching of inosculate trees might have been employed" And "planks could have been thrown across where huts were built".... is not factual but speculative. 66.82.9.107 20:10, 2 June 2007 (UTC)Reames
[edit] Pleaching = braiding, grafting or both?
Some links from pleaching appear to define it as no more than training living branches by braiding them together to form structures. But I had thought that it would need an element of grafting so that the trees are literally bonded together at “wound sites”. Can anyone clafify this? Also, it is not always clear if the grafting is self-grafting or from tree to tree. Do trees have any kind of immune system at all that might reject some grafts? And do such grafts mean that the root system has to work harder to support extra biomass being added every time a graft is made? Myles325a (talk) 01:09, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
