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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

For those eager these days to see something other than online or virtual art, a beautiful and unique sculptural work can be experienced Downtown. Georges Seurat’s 1884 pointillist masterpiece, “A ...

Jane Packer has transformed sunflowers into green blossoms by plucking away their petals. Left behind are unexpected new "flowers" — green heads with a tufted brown circle at the center. In her new ...

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 ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In December 2016, images purportedly showing large topiaries clipped into the shapes of cats were frequently shared on social media along with the claim that they were created by John Brooker, a ...

The daughter of a much-loved villager known for his quirky topiary said he would be thrilled people were "still talking about his work and raising smiles" four years after his death. Among the late ...

If you needed a giraffe in your front yard, frolicking with a deer while foxes, bears and monkeys looked on, Carlos R. Mello Jr. was the man to call. For more than 40 years, Mello was the go-to guy in ...