Topiary is the art of growing trees and shrubs as living sculptures — cubes, spheres, obelisks, animal shapes or combinations of these.

Topiary can be grown from many plants. For example, White Flower Farm sells a dark pink azalea ($68) topiary and a rosemary standard ($32). Shrubby herbs like rosemary, thyme, bay and hyssop make ...

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 ...

Topiaries: Topiary is the art of transforming plants into beautiful living ornaments. carefully guiding selected shoots and pinching back unwanted shoots; you can sculpt various eye-catching shapes.

My foray into using native plants to give a distinctly Kiwi take on topiary was in the early years at Ayrlies Garden when I took in hand a collection of unruly corokias and coprosmas growing amid ...

Today, the Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden sees an estimated 10,000 visitors a year from all over the world. Fryar enjoys the attention, explaining that his garden is all about love.

Either way, box, or Buxus, the classic plant for topiary because it holds its shape so well, is being consumed by box caterpillar and by the fungal box blight, which, since the 1990s, has spread ...