TOPIARY IS THE ART of clipping and training plants into shapes. It can be formal or fun -- or a little of both. It certainly lets you have fun with plants and get a little wild with your Felcos. Your ...

The centuries-old art form of topiary involves the training and trimming of plants, trees or shrubs into ornamental shapes, from traditional hedges and sheared trees to the fanciful shapes of Disney ...

Topiary is a form of pruning wherein a shrub or small tree is trimmed and trained into an interesting, elegant, or whimsical shape. Topiary shapes can range from a classic spiral or ball-on-stem to a ...

Topiary is the art of growing trees and shrubs as living sculptures — cubes, spheres, obelisks, animal shapes or combinations of these. The tradition has flourished in various places at different ...

Put aside the shears and clipper brochures and forget the wire frame. The key thing that emerges, as the head gardener at the world’s oldest topiary garden shares the secrets of topiary, is that they ...

Hedge cutting, especially of box hedging, can seem a little like painting the Forth Bridge at this time of year. To improve my skills and make the task more enjoyable, I decided to seek some tips from ...

Topiary is a good metaphor for the whole business of gardening – growing, nurturing and carefully shaping plants to look exactly as we want them. It is wholly unnatural and controlled but ironically ...

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Harriet Sykes’ love of topiary conquered a windswept stony hillside and the ever present fear of box blight. How can you keep your creations in top condition? Thinking outside the box: Harriet Sykes’ ...