This text explores the wealth of ideas and techniques for growing, clipping, pruning and training the living elements of the garden to make stylish shapes, patterns, structures and focal points.
An insight into the classic art with step-by-step designs and projects to follow, with 300 photographs.
Topiary is as old as gardening itself.
This is essentially a practical work based upon Nathaniel Lloyd's personal experiences of established yew and box topiary and hedging at Great Dixter, Northiam in Sussex after his move there in 1912.
Topiary: The Art of Clipping Trees and Ornamental Hedges
Topiary, the art of creating sculpture in clipped plants, originated with the Romans, who employed 'toparii' to clip their hedges.