Grandiose shrubs painstakingly clipped into ornate designs were once the preserve of stately homes – but topiary is undergoing a renaissance among ordinary lockdown gardeners, often armed with nothing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The box pom-poms gracing Grey’s Court in the Cotswold village of Southrop are echoed all over the world, from ...

Madeleine Howell discovers a fresh approach to the art of clipping on the banks of the Thames Madeleine Howell is a lifestyle, features and travel publisher, writer and editor, exploring how to live ...

Good structure is to the autumn garden what good bones are to the ageing face. The difference is that autumn's soggy tendencies are easy to fix: topiary defies seasonal droopiness. It diverts ...

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TOPIARY...or not topiary. My topiary offer of January 23 - a heart-shaped box bush - had you asking for more information about this revived gardening hobby. -IT was ...

You can show your devotion to your pet or love of a particular breed by giving your garden bushes a canine-flavoured makeover Topiary - the art of training or pruning living trees and shrubs into ...

Thieves stole a hedge clipped into the shape of an 8ft stag from a graden centre in Oxfordshire. The green-fingered thieves dug up the topiary from the driveway of Notcutts Garden Centre in Nuneham ...