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 ...

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, the practice of training plants into defined shapes, might evoke fantastical scenes from “Alice in Wonderland” or the formal gardens of Versailles. Michael P. Gibson believes its lessons ...

HARFORD COUNTY, Md. (WHTM) – A little over an hour from Pennsylvania’s state capital is the Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton, Maryland, the only public topiary garden in the Mid-Atlantic Region. World ...

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 ...

A good replacement for box is Ilex crenata, it has a very similar leaf. It is a slow growing holly that can be nicely shaped ...

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 ...

My friend Roni sent me photos of an unusual plant she saw in Europe last month. Initially, it appeared to be an arrangement of leafy branches in a tall woven vase on top of a ceramic container. What ...

A rare vacancy has opened up at the world's oldest topiary garden in Cumbria.