POETRY: This week, poet and artist Frieda Hughes was persuaded by the National Garden Scheme to host special events in her ...

Inspired Life He turns hedges into works of art. One appears on Google Maps (4.7 stars). “I think people like bonkers things in their lives to cheer them up,” said Tim Bushe, an architect who ...

Ladew Topiary Gardens Clipped hedges and a house full of antiques are the main attractions for this museum north of Baltimore, Maryland. Robert M. Poole June 2011. Get our newsletter! Get ...

When we arrived at our current garden five years ago, it was bisected by a 20 by 3.5-metre hedge that blocked the view and sucked light out of its surroundings.

And the idea of shaping those hedges also has deep roots: The world’s oldest topiary garden, founded in 1694, is at Levens Hall, a manor house about a five-hour drive north of London.

A new photographic exhibition, On The Hedge, opening at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey, charts our relationship with hedges and topiary, from their role in shaping our landscapes and homes, to their ...

Blobberies are about taking classic topiary and giving it a more playful, organic twist. Instead of flat hedges or rigid cones in isolation, think rolling green mounds, like moss-covered boulders ...

Then there was the rest of the topiary. An old box hedge running down one side of the garden had been turned into a procession including an owl, a pig, two rabbits, a hen, a goose, a duck, a snail ...

A hedge trimmed into the form of resting cats by architect and topiary artist Tim Bushe is seen in Islington, London, July 11, 2024. CBS News/Cameron Stewart The couple met as teenagers at art school.

The garden has changed over the years: Two stone lions carefully positioned to stand guard beside a pair of conical yews at the entrance are now tucked inside the shrubs, and the yew hedges beyond ...

With cordless hedge trimmers, we also check how long the battery lasts and how many metres of hedge we could cut in this time. To help you select the right model for your garden, we've divided our ...