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.

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 ...

Shaping plants into balls, pyramids and even birds doesn’t have to be as complicated as it might seem, so you don’t just have to admire topiary in the gardens of stately homes and horticultural shows.

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 ...

MONTY DON has shared how to cut topiary and hedges on Gardeners' World. The gardening expert said "now is a good time" to cut topiary and hedges for a "crisp" finish until "next spring".

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 ...