The centuries-old art form of topiary involves the training and trimming of plants, trees or shrubs into ornamental shapes, from traditional hedges and sheared trees to the fanciful shapes of Disney ...

My first encounter with fanciful topiary came when I was 18 and arrived for the first time on the campus of my Boston area college. Situated atop a hill, my dormitory offered an idyllic view of the ...

Humans have been clipping trees and shrubs into ornamental shapes since at least ancient Rome. Pliny the Elder—the famed Roman statesman who penned an encyclopedia and who died while watching a ...