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Container Topiary
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Product Description
Topiary, the art of shaping trees and shrubs into geometric designs, was once considered suitable only for formal gardens. No more! Container Topiary brings the technique thoroughly up to date with modern urban spaces in mind. Aimed at novice gardeners, it features over 16 projects—everything from simple box balls to fancy designs—as well as advice on cultivating, pruning, and training topiary in a variety of styles. With advice on displaying the final results and an illustrated comprehensive directory of plants, this stunning book is inspirational!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #142859 in Books
- Published on: 2009-04-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 96 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
Add form and structure to your garden with topiary. Grown in containers, they make attractive portable additions to use wherever needed - to fill an empty gap, to bring cohesion to a collection of pots, to add formality to a doorstep. But topiary is not cheap. The price reflects the years of care, cultivation and training involved in this centuries-old art to develop balls, pyramids, pom-poms and standards from box and other small-leaved shrubs. This attractive guide to container topiary by garden writer Susan Berry shows how this time and cost can be cut by using other, quicker-growing plants or by buying larger shrubs and training them yourself. Beautifully illustrated with the photographs of award-winning photographer Steven Wooster, this is a visual feast of topiary inspiration. From painted pots to lead planters, topiaried animals and birds, cultivation and display advice, Susan Berry covers every aspect of growing plants in this attractive, clever way. - Lucy Watson
About the Author
Susan Berry is an experienced gardening writer and editor, specializing in container and small-space gardening. Her previous books include Container Gardening on Balconies and Terraces and Plants for Small Spaces. She has also written for BBC Gardener's World, Homes and Garden and the Sunday Express magazine. She lives in north London.
