SHAPED TO PERFECTION
The silent sentinels of an English garden, neatly clipped topiary and hedges form the bones of the most elegant horticultural designs. Their distinct, crisp outlines stand proud all year round, letting the seasonal blooms and dancing grasses ebb and flow around them. There are endless plants that can be clipped into majestic and intricate shapes, be it to divide a space, create standout features or form elaborate planting patterns.
A RICH HERITAGE
Dating from classical antiquity, topiary is the art of shaping plants with clippers and shears. Roman author Pliny the Elder (23–79AD) wrote of “barbered groves” in the garden of his nephew, Pliny the Younger, with box trees clipped into ornate shapes and animal figures.
