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 ...

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 ...

Question: We have a tall evergreen in our yard. I think it's a juniper. How do we prune it to make it a nice spiral shape? We have some other evergreens that have been pruned into squares, but they ...

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 ...

BEACON HILL gardeners are expressing themselves. From boxwood bunnies to juniper undulating down a rockery, front yards range from the seriously pruned to the fantastically clipped. “You can’t drive ...

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 ...