| Trees and vines are trained for useful purposes, | | | | can quickly create interior accessories of any size, |
| raising crops off the ground, increasing the yield | | | | at any time of year, ranging from lush green to |
| of fruit and furnishing precious shade. The | | | | flowering-fragrant arrangements. |
| Romans were the first to develop this skills into | | | | Portable topiary are easily moved around as light |
| topiary, the art of shaping plants to create living | | | | or the season dictate, you can always have |
| sculpture. | | | | arrangements for all seasons of the year, |
| That is in general the meaning of topiary, but it | | | | weather and personal taste. Not only can you |
| really goes beyond, as in modern times the art is | | | | create beautiful art for your home, but you can |
| just as alive as it was in it's beginnings. The use of | | | | practice the art for gift-giving, for party |
| apiaries for aesthetic expression and the using it | | | | decorative center-pieces and birthday celebrations. |
| as a softer alternative to marble statuary and | | | | For small spaces the new appeal that topiary |
| architecture, and in many cases used as a focal | | | | enjoy, solves the problem of beautifying small |
| point that enhances the wilderness of unrestrained | | | | outdoor areas in a unique way. An array of styles |
| nature. | | | | can turn unruly plants into works of art, you can |
| Over two thousand years of garden history and | | | | turn evergreens into splendid spirals, unify your |
| expertise have resulted in a rich variety of | | | | house and garden by clipping your hedges into |
| plant-shaping possibilities, and now we all can | | | | complementary architectural forms. Transform |
| participate of the indulgence that is the ability to | | | | ordinary beds and borders by carpeting them in |
| create them. Classical and contemporary designs | | | | patterns of miniature hedges and flowers that |
| elaborate and simple, are waiting to be brought to | | | | outline an animal, name initials or a sundial. |
| life with the snip of scissors and the snap of | | | | Any garden and home can benefit from the |
| pruning shears. | | | | extraordinary finish of a topiary, it will bring |
| No special skills are required to enter into this | | | | mysticism and romanticism to your life, plus you |
| enchanting world of topiary creation, even the | | | | will have a true opportunity to exercise your skills |
| most inexperienced gardener can quickly create | | | | imagination and love for beauty and art, enjoy the |
| masterpieces and interesting designs whether | | | | transformation of your outdoor and indoor living |
| those are for indoors or outdoors. By training | | | | space, make yourself and others happy with the |
| fast-growing vines over simple wire frames, you | | | | use of topiary art. |