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Topiary is one of the most enduring forms of plant architecture.

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Introduction to Topiary
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Topiary is a related form of plant art, employing decorative shapes fashioned out of plants. Egyptians and Romans created topiaries, which were an integral feature of ancient gardens.

Outdoor topiary can create a striking effect in your garden. Taking the time to make your own topiary can save you up to several hundred dollars as well as give you a gardening focal point that you can be proud of.

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Try classic topiary
Â- Clipped shrubs such as box and bay look wonderful in front of homes with a formal facade.

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Topiary how-to
Choose a specimen with a straight central leader (it's fine to start with a young plant; transplant it into incrementally larger pots as it grows).

Topiary
Topiary is the technique of pruning and training shrubs and trees into formalized shapes resembling such things as animals or geometric figures.
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Topiary: Clipping shrubs, hedges, etc, into decorative shapes.
Topsoil: The usually more fertile top layer of soil - see subsoil.
Transpiration: Water loss through a plant's pores in leaves and stems.

topiary
A method of pruning and training certain plants into formal shapes such as animals.
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topiary
a garden or shrubbery trimmed and shaped into geometric or animal forms.

TOPIARY -- The art of clipping and training woody plants to form geometric shapes or intricate patterns. Box and Myrtle are suitable types.

Topiary The art of pruning and training plants into specific shapes.
Topsoil The top layer of native soil. This term may also apply to good quality soil sold at nurseries and garden centers.

TOPIARY - The horticultural art of clipping and training woody plants to form geometric shapes or interesting patterns.

topiary A tree or shrub shaped and sheared into an ornamental, unnatural form, usually a geometric shape or the shape of an animal.
totipotency The ability of any cell to develop into a complete plant.

Topiary: The art of sculpting living plants into ornamental shapes.
Tuber: Thickened or swollen underground branch or stolon (stem) with numerous buds or eyes; thickening occurs because of the accumulation of reserved food, as in potatoes.

Pruning topiary
To keep shapes looking neat, topiary shrubs should receive their first trim now. If they are trimmed at regular intervals throughout the summer the shape is easy to maintain. Don't trim after early autumn.

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topiaryTopiary describes a shape made by clipping plants. The practice was popular in Roman gardens and revived with the renaissance.

Next to the scented geranium (along the wall) is a myrtle (Myrtus communis) topiary. The trick to keeping it happy is to keep the soil moist.

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"Rosemary forms extraordinary hedges and can be clipped into fancy topiary - even bonsai for those with the patience," says Northern California landscape designer Rosalind Creasy.

This usually involves training, in particular the art of topiary, by which small-leaved plants such as box (Buxus sempervirens) are clipped into crisply defined shapes like spirals.

Plants range in size from small 4 inch pots to standards or even braided topiary specimens. This plant has been widely cultivated, and there are hundreds of cultivars world-wide.

Pruning to Shape The last word in plant shaping is topiary-an art invented some 2,000 years ago by the Romans-but even gardeners who don't want boxwood peacocks and yew sheep grazing on their lawn may have an interest in tailoring their plants.

Boxwood is found throughout the temperate zones of the world where its ability to withstand heavy pruning make it an ideal hedge and topiary specimen.

Traditional plants that are used in topiary, like bay and rosemary, can take years to mature. If you'd like a standard in a fraction of the time - six months to one year - try growing a coleus standard like the one in the photo at right.

Train bougainvillea into a topiary form that looks like a tree.
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Packed Patios. Tight quarters? Rest easy. If you have room for a lawn chair, you have room for flowers.

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Some long-lived herbs can be pruned and trained into interesting topiary shapes or ball-headed "standards," which makes them valuable as formal accents on a patio, entrance, or walkway during the summer, ...

Greenery
Forget run-of-the-mill bouquets and potted plants. Seek out something special: a rosemary topiary or dwarf orange tree will surprise and delight your host. For the host with a super-green thumb, a bonsai plant may be the ideal choice.

More recent uses for this outstanding plant include border hedges, standard topiary and pottager gardens.

dentate, make excellent choices for container gardens here, as they are not hardy enough to be perennial in our Colorado climate. Often this is the species choice for topiary gardeners, but extra care should be given to adequate fertilizing, ...

The rosemary plant can get old and large enough to grow into a fairly substantial shrub with a slightly wild profile, or, if you prune, shape and train it regularly, rosemary makes a spectacular indoor topiary.

Florida and Hawaii but can be set outdoors for the summer in any part of the country. There are hundreds of cultivars that come in various shaped flowers as well as in almost every color and are sold as container plants in bush or topiary form.

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