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  Topiary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Topiary at Versailles and its imitators was never complicated: low hedges punctuated by potted trees trimmed as balls on standards, interrupted by obelisks at corners were the vertical features of parterre gardens.
After topiary fell from grace in aristocratic gardens, however, it continued to be featured in cottagers' gardens, where a single specimen of traditional forms, a ball, a tree trimmed to a cone in several cleanly separated tiers, meticulously clipped and topped with a topiary peacock, was passed on as an heirloom.
The revival of topiary in English gardening parallels the revived "Jacobethan" taste in architecture, and John Loudon in the 1840s was the first garden writer to express a sense of loss at the topiary that had been removed from English gardens.
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Topiary is the art of creating sculptures in the medium of shrubbery.
Examples may be found at, among other places, various Disney theme parks and the hotels on those properties and outside the Tavern on the Green restaurant in Central Park in New York.
The title character in Tim Burton's movie Edward Scissorhands is lauded for his skill in the art; a real-life topiary artist is a subject of Errol Morris's Fast, Cheap and Out of Control.
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 topiary work - HighBeam Encyclopedia
TOPIARY WORK [topiary work], pruning and training of shrubs and trees into ornamental shapes, used in landscape gardening.
Elaborate topiary work in which trees and shrubs are clipped to resemble statuary (e.g., birds, nymphs, urns) or are planted to form mazes or intricate geometrical patterns was once popular but now can be seen only in old-fashioned or specialized private gardens or in formal parks and botanical displays.
The cutting hedge of Topiary Farm; The Dorset valley where 15,000 sculptures in box pay testament to one family's passion for creativity.
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