Growing a home from living trees instead of building a home from felled timber is the goal of an architect from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mitchell Joachim, part of the MIT Media

If you are looking for an interesting way to add structural elements to your garden consider a pleached hedge, tunnel or arch. Pleaching is method of pruning and weaving branches together for ornament

Pleaching is a method of training trees to produce a narrow screen or hedge by tying in and interlacing flexible young shoots along a supporting framework. Use this technique to make walks, arbours, t