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 ...

Whether you're elevating your garden, decking, balcony, driveway, patio or any other outside space, a spiral topiary tree is an elegant and extravagant plant that's sure to create a lavish feature in ...

Spiral shrubs may look difficult, but are surprisingly easy to make and maintain. For a fraction of what a garden shop charges, you can create a spiral topiary at home in an hour or two. These days, ...

The word 'blobbery' may not sound very elegant; blobs are not conventionally associated with elegance, after all. But in gardening circles, the blobbery – a term coined by Guy Watts, managing director ...

Topiary is a garden art form which you either love or hate. Topiary gardens have been around for centuries and some have survived; others have simply died through lack of maintenance. I remember my ...

You don’t have to be the sort of person who files their CDs in alphabetical order to enjoy the orderliness of a formal garden. I know people often think of it as the “statues, symmetry and straight ...

Villa Lante in Viterbo, central Italy, is lovely, in a straight-armed, geometrical kind of a way. It features in a book called Topiary, written by an aptly named garden historian, Twigs Way, and ...