Dear Carol: I happened to find in the woods near my house the upper body and head of a Styrofoam deer, the kind used for target practice. It is large and while it has some holes in it still has its ...

Even if you don’t have a back yard, you can share in the joy of spring gardening. Let’s start with what you already might have growing indoors. Is there an ivy plant that has been sending off new, ...

Plants trained to the shapes of balls, pyramids and lifelike animals are called topiaries. They are fun to make and often are used as decorations for the home or the landscape. Topiaries usually start ...

The centuries-old art form of topiary involves the training and trimming of plants, trees or shrubs into ornamental shapes, from traditional hedges and sheared trees to the fanciful shapes of Disney ...

Once upon a time, European Renaissance gardeners spent months upon months carefully pruning and shaping foliage into the geometric shapes, swirling spirals and life-size animals of traditional topiary ...

Santiago Padilla waters the "mama swan" topiary at the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens in Las Vegas recently. The display depicts Monet's famous 1900 painting, ``The Water Lily Pond." ...

Topiaries – shrubs that are pruned into ornamental shapes such as spirals or animals, or metal forms covered with a creeping plant — can elicit a "wow" at the entrance of your home. Tastefully placed, ...

There comes a time when feeling green becomes cool. Usually associated with feeling ill, this time of year the color green is a warm welcome. Last week, I shared my how-to of sowing the seeds for the ...

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 dormitory offered an idyllic view of the ...

When I think of topiary, I think of Disneyland and whimsical cartoon characters reproduced as perfectly clipped plants. In fact, Walt Disney did much to acquaint many of us with topiary, an ancient ...