Tree shaping
(重定向自Arborsculpture)
![Needle & Thread Tree by Axel ErlandsonArtist Peter Cook seated in a living garden chair grown via the Pooktre method[1]](/uploads/202412/21/Needle_n_thread0843.jpg)


![Chair created using aeroponic root shaping[18]](/uploads/202412/21/Living_Fig_chair0844.jpeg)
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 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 similar techniques. Most artists use grafting to deliberately induce the inosculation of living trunks, branches, and roots, into artistic designs or functional structures.