Sophie is on Peramangk Country, in the Adelaide Hills, to meet an expert in transforming humble shrubs into living art pieces. Craig Sullivan is a specialist in topiary and cloud pruning, whose work ...

Nothing sets off a garden quite like a neatly clipped topiary ball, cone or, perhaps, cloud. If you fancy having a go at turning your shrubs into topiary in time for the first garden parties of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the zenith of its popularity in the 17th century, topiary – the art of trimming shrubs and trees into ...

A laser eye is all it takes to shape the great gardens of Brodsworth Hall. A laser eye, razor focus, and the rare sight to see invisible lines. There is a skill to topiary, in crafting such beauties ...

The word 'blobbery' may not sound very elegant; blobs are not conventionally associated with elegance, after all. But in gardening circles, the blobbery – a term coined by Guy Watts, managing director ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The box pom-poms gracing Grey’s Court in the Cotswold village of Southrop are echoed all over the world, from ...