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 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 ...

My first encounter with fanciful topiary came when I was 18 and arrived for the first time on the campus of my Boston area college. Situated atop a hill, my dormitory offered an idyllic view of the ...

Our gardens serve as a source of peace and escape — especially in these times, when we aren't venturing much farther than our back doors. And even more than that, our gardens are truly a place to ...

Everyone has an opinion regarding topiary. The cheeky collection of garden gossip, Yew and Non-Yew, Gardening for Horticultural Climbers by James Bartholomew (Century Books, 1996), lays it out so: ...