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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Topiary is a form of pruning wherein a shrub or small tree is trimmed and trained into an interesting, elegant, or whimsical shape ...

A pair of pruners and a few minutes of time are all it takes to turn these easy-care trees and shrubs into pretty pyramids and eye-catching orbs. Shaping topiary trees and flowering shrubs is part art ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the zenith of its popularity in the 17th century, topiary – the art of trimming shrubs and trees into ...

Large scale topiary at a botanical garden. Topiary history. Create personal topiary arrangements. The world of topiary is the focus of this episode including a brief history of the origin of topiary.

Once upon a time, European Renaissance gardeners spent months upon months carefully pruning and shaping foliage into the geometric shapes, swirling spirals and life-size animals of traditional topiary ...

ST. LOUIS – It may be time again to make order out of chaos in the garden. That has long been a classic gardener’s goal: to tame nature, to reduce it from a state of native wildness to a form that ...

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 ...

Madeleine Howell discovers a fresh approach to the art of clipping on the banks of the Thames Madeleine Howell is a lifestyle, features and travel publisher, writer and editor, exploring how to live ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with topiary artist Michael Gibson about South Carolina's Pearl Fryar, a notable self-trained topiary artist who died earlier this month.