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 ...

Alan Titchmarsh is such a fan of topiary that he jokes about the drastic lengths he'd go to keep it perfectly shaped ...

Who doesn't welcome gardening advice from the man who's worked in horticulture for over 60 years, the legend that is Alan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dear Carol: I happened to find in the woods near my house the upper body and head of a Styrofoam deer, the kind used for target practice. It is large and while it has some holes in it still has its ...

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 ...

Good structure is to the autumn garden what good bones are to the ageing face. The difference is that autumn's soggy tendencies are easy to fix: topiary defies seasonal droopiness. It diverts ...