Topiary is the art of growing trees and shrubs as living sculptures — cubes, spheres, obelisks, animal shapes or combinations of these. The tradition has flourished in various places at different ...

Everyone has an opinion regarding topiary. The cheeky collection of garden gossip, Yew and Non-Yew, Gardening for Horticultural Climbers by James Bartholomew (Century Books, 1996), lays it out so: ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Wivenhoe penises illustrate well the tensions besetting modern topiary. Wivenhoe is one of those bucolic English ...

Topiary — the art of growing trees and shrubs as living sculptures — is rare in modern gardens. Still, the green cubes, spheres, obelisks and animal shapes are attention-getters. And perhaps as much ...

Darren Lerigo, a topiary designer and founder of Modern Mint talks through the techniques used to make the perfect garden Topiary designer Darren Lerigo clipping yew and box at Balmoral Cottage in ...