The ancient Egyptians and Romans practiced the art of topiary with imagination and ingenuity. In Renaissance Europe, the clipping and ordering of alleys and avenues was as important as growing flowers ...

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 ...

The word 'blobbery' may not sound very elegant; blobs are not conventionally associated with elegance, after all. But in gardening circles, the blobbery – a term coined by Guy Watts, managing director ...

On these hot, hot days, here's a project that will keep our fingernails dirty in the air-conditioned comfort of our homes or on a breezy lanai. The ancient Egyptians and Romans practiced herbal ...

If you’ve ever wandered around country estates admiring giant animals and other weird and wonderful topiary shapes, you may think it’s way out of reach in your own outdoor space. Yet creating simple ...

Like stepping into a fairy tale -- the trees, bushes and even the vines seem come to life in Cal Klaver's topiary gardens in Jenison. Sporting poodle cuts, neatly trimmed greenery and sculptural ...

• Repeat shapes. Pick the same topiary shape and stagger the sizes. On its website, Southern Living shows a pair of ivy orbs – one smaller than the other – planted in cast-iron urns with pedestal ...

Charlotte Molesworth’s garden, with chess pieces, peacocks, lollipops and tiered topiary in yew and wavy buxus hedges Credit: Photo: CHARLOTTE MOLESWORTH When the friend of a friend told me that she ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The box pom-poms gracing Grey’s Court in the Cotswold village of Southrop are echoed all over the world, from ...

How good does your garden look out of season? Go on – be honest. Too many people settle for browned-off borders offset by shaggy lawns and thickets of bare twigs, shrugging off their dismal ...

THERE'S still time to win a hedge trimmer worth nearly £400 in the EGO Power+ search for Britain’s most fantastic topiary hedge. Your hedge can come in any shape, size of design – the more imaginative ...