Perfectly square boxwoods and junipers forming spirals are too much hassle. For a laid-back garden design without too much fancy clipping, try blobbery bushes.

Snug Harbor Farm in Kennebunk sells topiary and teaches classes in how to train and prune plants into stylized shapes. When I heard that Snug Harbor Farm in Kennebunk is holding a topiary class ...

Topiary — pruning a plant into a geometric or fanciful shape — is another special approach that doesn’t follow all the health rules. This is the million-dollar question. For some reason ...

Prune junipers during the growing season ... It’s easiest to start with a nursery-grown specimen that is already trained into a topiary, then trimming as needed to retain the artistic shape ...

Craig Sullivan is a specialist in topiary and cloud pruning, whose work provides a stunning contrast to the rolling hills and wild bushland of this part of South Australia. Craig explains his ...

Topiary offers a unique way for plants to shape our gardens. Shaping plants into balls, pyramids and even birds doesn’t have to be as complicated as it might seem, so you don’t just have to admire ...

Topiary expert Mike Gibson is working with Columbia Parks & Recreation and the Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Cultural Arts Center to host the four-week master class. "I think a common misconception that ...

Overwatering will cause root rot which will kill the plant. To keep the topiary's shape, you will need to prune it often. Don't discard the pruned pieces; use them in the kitchen in your favorite ...

Much contemporary topiary harks back to the conservative French tradition of obelisks and box balls, but there have been some genuine innovations. Perhaps the most striking is cloud pruning, the Far ...

Sophie meets a topiary and cloud pruning specialist to see how he transforms humble shrubs into living works of art. Sophie is on Peramangk Country, in the Adelaide Hills, to meet an expert in ...