How To Use Topiary In A Sentence
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A swarm of princesses totter on stage, got up like topiary on legs in every shade of scarlet, crimson, cerise, cochineal, each foolishly imagining Prince Charming must choose her as his red queen.
Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
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Some varieties lend themselves to topiary sculpture, espalier, or bonsai training.
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The front garden includes an evergreen magnolia, topiary spirals in pots, standard privets as well as hardy plantings in terracotta pots.
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The middle of the lawn was exceptionally spacious, and topiary trees had been strategically placed in a row.
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The Edwardian circular sunken garden survives with the original topiary.
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An outstanding example of violently abusing plants for our entertainment is topiary art.
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How does arborsculpture differ from bonsai or topiary?
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Lemon verbena is also useful for topiary work, making nice large standards.
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The yew topiary, the drifts of narcissi, the berberis darwiniae, the clumps of brilliant orange monbretia, all thrive.
Hancox: All under one roof
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Along that stretch of two-lane, one encounters a remarkable range of topiary and ornamental eccentricity.
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Escaping post-war London, the grieving widow directed her energies into creating her own decorative version of a Scottish pleasance, planting fruit and vegetables as well as flowers among its topiary.
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It features the new Bouquet Bunch stamp set from the Summer Mini and lining up the topiary was a cinch with the new clear mount stamps.
Summer Mini Catalog Sneak Peek - Day 2
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Our modern game is bereft of such pervasive facial topiary.
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Find yourself a public garden locally where there are huge hedges or topiary and have a chat with the head gardener.
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UPSIDE: The spacious garden with wonderful topiary probably steals the show.
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Topiary was originally defined as ornamental gardening, so you could say, to be technical, that arborsculpture is a branch of topiary, but the word topiary is more commonly used to describe the shaping of foliage.
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We dug up the misplaced topiary and turned it around.
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For me, clipping topiary becomes almost meditative once you lose yourself in the task.
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Solid, structural plants, particularly clipped topiary shapes, have been used to mark the entrances to homes for centuries.
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The same applies to topiary pieces.
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If you have a yew, this may be the only clipping it will need - the same goes for any topiary pieces.
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Used for low hedging and topiary.
Winter Garden Glory
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An intricately designed knot garden is the centrepiece, with box hedging and topiary cones forming an outer frame.
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It includes a contemporary parterre planted with 16 abstract topiary shapes.
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The yew topiary, the drifts of narcissi, the berberis darwiniae, the clumps of brilliant orange monbretia, all thrive.
Hancox: All under one roof
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The south terrace was pushed out to form a larger lawn which was decorated with topiary evergreens, as well as urns and a tazza purchased from the Horticultural Society.
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Our modern game is bereft of such pervasive facial topiary.
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UPSIDE: The spacious garden with wonderful topiary probably steals the show.
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Egypt features a huge topiary pyramid.
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The croquet match in the topiary is a standout, and Nolan's flair for visual effects is confirmed by the now famous scene in which the King whips off his powdered gray "hair" to reveal that, all along, it has been a wig.
The New Yorker
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He values all of his customers whether they are shopping for an elaborate piece of box topiary priced in the thousands, or a couple of pot plants.
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It is a good time to trim most hedges and topiary.
The Sun
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But in Young's opinion bonsai is no worse than cutting grass, pruning roses or keeping topiary.
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Unless you have acres of fancy hedging, trimming topiary is a treat.
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A topiary fox and hounds dancing along the hedge tops adds a note of humour.
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She led me through a foyer with Greek and Roman sculptures into a large library decorated with sets of antique books and out the back door to a swimming pool big enough to scrub down a herd of cattle and sentineled by topiary sculptures the size of radar dishes.
EVENING’S EMPIRE
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After you've gotten the knack of making a simply topiary shape, you can try more elaborate shapes, such as animals and giant birds.
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The gardens are famous for their hedges, topiary, fruit trees and the imaginative use of perspective.
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Before us stretched a two-acre walled garden laid out in the geometric style of a baroque pleasance — with cone-shaped topiary, boxwood hedges, beds in tidy rows, and a shimmering lily pond.
The Constant Gardener
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The gardens are famous for their hedges, topiary, fruit trees and the imaginative use of perspective.
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All that remains of the eighteenth-century Italian garden are three terraces with geometric topiary shrubs.
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Some 200 plants have been sculpted by topiary experts into different designs and there are at least 800 hanging baskets.
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Egypt features a huge topiary pyramid.
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Created by designer Paola Navone and inspired by the art of topiary, it will not only make for a comfortable seating experience surrounded by nature, but also for a true figurative art for your garden.
Garden Furniture by Patricia Urquiola
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For me, clipping topiary becomes almost meditative once you lose yourself in the task.
Times, Sunday Times
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When a number of such trees are growing together, the place is called a topiary, and lately people who can afford the money have been contriving topiaries in some parts of their grounds.
Chatterbox, 1906
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Pollarding and topiary are extreme examples of pruning to create a desired, unnatural effect.
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A topiary features plants trimmed into the shapes of animals and birds.
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Beyond the loggia was an acre of terraced lawn and more topiary.
Over the Edge
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Find yourself a public garden locally where there are huge hedges or topiary and have a chat with the head gardener.
Times, Sunday Times
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More experienced gardeners may care to have a go at cloud topiary, a Buddhist idea that transforms a bushy shrub into a miniature tree using the inner framework of branches to support a floating ‘cloud’ of foliage.
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Another approach is to soften and deformalise the outlines of traditional topiary, while retaining time-honoured techniques to maintain them.
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The magnolias are clipped into pyramids and underplanted with topiary balls that will eventually meld into each other to create a cloud hedge.
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The foliage grew so close to the ground that sheep could reach it easily, the result being that every wilga bottom was mown as straight as a topiary hedge.
The Thorn Birds
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A topiary fox and hounds dancing along the hedge tops adds a note of humour.
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Rowe's yard in Vinings, Georgia, has indisputable African antecedents, as manifested in its topiary, fruit trees, swept-dirt grounds, and highly varied adornments.
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They are easy to handle and ideal for keeping box topiary in shape or trimming leafy shrubs and law edges.
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In that sense, topiary is almost the opposite of arborsculpture in that you're only trimming the foliage, whereas in arborsculpture, you're only working with the trunk.
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The sides of the bowl are defined with pleached linden trees and parterres of golden privet, santolina, althernanthera, Korean boxwood and red-leaf Japanese barberry with begonias, lantanas, fucshia and cone-shaped yew topiary.
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The mallet is traded in for an ax, and the topiary zoo on the front lawn is omitted.
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Egypt features a huge topiary pyramid.
Times, Sunday Times
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The magnolias are clipped into pyramids and underplanted with topiary balls that will eventually meld into each other to create a cloud hedge.
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In 1625, Francis Bacon, whose famous essay opens ‘God first planted a garden: it is the greatest of human pleasures ’, dismissed popular knot gardens and topiary with a sneer.
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When winter comes, you can keep the topiary either by moving it inside, if room permits, or by taking out the ivy and leaving the moss-covered frame outdoors, misting it occasionally.
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The garden she made is so well known today and has been so influential, that it is difficult to remember how unfashionable formal gardens, knots and topiary once were.
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If you want to branch out from basic hedging and introduce a decorative focal point, topiary offers endless variety in terms of size and shape.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police last week said they had arrested a man they identified at that point only as Topiary at his home in the Shetland Islands in connection with Anonymous and LulzSec, or Lulz Security.
'Anonymous' Probe Nets Teenager in Britain
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She continued: ‘You can also combine traditional ideas with new ones, to create a sensational seasonal topiary tree.’
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It is a good time to trim most hedges and topiary.
The Sun
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Kelly gives a grin despite sleet at Legoland in Windsor, England at the Bat Lord's Dragon Castle with a 10' tall Topiary Dragon planted with dragons' foot ivy!
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Thus, we noticed that the no-nonsense lines of the building have been gentled by a topiary maze in the foreground.
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For me, clipping topiary becomes almost meditative once you lose yourself in the task.
Times, Sunday Times
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Egypt features a huge topiary pyramid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where can I buy a pair of topiary shears?
Times, Sunday Times
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With the increasing provision of foodstuffs from local sources, there was a development around the sixteenth century into formal, ornamental gardens, with mazes, arbours and topiary, as a complementary adjunct to the house.
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In fact, topiary pruning can create health hazards for the plant, lower it's value and waste time and money.
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At first, his musings on time appear to be merely intellectual topiary to fill out a slim story.
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Used for low hedging and topiary.
Winter Garden Glory
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The stolen goods, four of 15 topiary shrubs snatched from Whitehall garden centre, Corsham Road, disappeared in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Outdoors, I put a lot of time into gardening; propagating slow growing trees and succulents and practising topiary.
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Inspired by the ancient art of topiary, these sofas, armchairs and tables have been crafted in a light and minimal fashion to expose only the versatility of metal.
Garden Furniture by Patricia Urquiola
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Once the topiary is properly treated, the animating ritual can commence.
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The outside of the mansion of which the party was being held is a gigantic garden filled with topiary animals of all kinds, elegant fountains, and colorful paper lanterns and twinkling lights.
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Where can I buy a pair of topiary shears?
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You could always choose to retreat - give up bodybuilding and transfer your energy into Civil War re-enactments or topiary gardening - but you didn't turn to this page only to give up on your dream.
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My topiary skills are not highly developed but at least it looks a little more under control, now.
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Box and yew topiary is particularly suitable for tiny spaces as it provides form and greenery all year round.
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The 16.5 acre site boasts natural woodland, a Japanese garden, sunken lawns, topiary and an orangery.
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They can be trimmed almost like a topiary, if you want to use miniature box, lavender or germander.
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And what about those who favour facial topiary?
The Sun
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If you have a yew, this may be the only clipping it will need - the same goes for any topiary pieces.
Times, Sunday Times
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Faced with his manically inventive and elaborate use of his material, at times recalling the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts and the ornamentation of Italian Renaissance book design; and his endless depictions of George Washington—as angel, bellhop, businessman, clockwork, cowboy, founding father, topiary, traffic cop and window washer continually outfoxing his nemesis the Gingerbread man—is to give in freely to his fantastic voyage.
Of a Decade and a Dollar
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They can be trimmed almost like a topiary, if you want to use miniature box, lavender or germander.
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The same applies to topiary pieces.
Times, Sunday Times
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I try to hide behind the topiary and follow the Phils-Nationals game on my Droid, but gardeners run me to earth.
Dreading the Arrival of Daffodils
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Some of it is very formal, with clipped hedges and topiary, and then there are very wild areas.
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Her eleven-thirty was poised, with scissors and hair-dryer at the ready to perform yet another act of tonsorial topiary on her pretty little head.
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Using both live and dried plants, you'll learn how to select materials, frames, and containers, then plant, train, prune, and clip your topiary.
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Some of it is very formal, with clipped hedges and topiary, and then there are very wild areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Visitors can see everything from formal gardens think espaliered trees and clipped topiary to urban ones set among stone terraces.
The Gates Swing Open to Secret Gardens
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And what about those who favour facial topiary?
The Sun
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Topiary was originally defined as ornamental gardening, so you could say, to be technical, that arborsculpture is a branch of topiary, but the word topiary is more commonly used to describe the shaping of foliage.
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He courts ambiguity, populating his paintings with shape-shifting topiary, chunks of masonry, stylized umbrella pines, fountains, city walls, column fragments, sculptures and more, including the sinister "hoods" of the paintings exhibited in New York—all of it conjured up with ham-fisted, assertive drawing and with paint-handling that ranges from elegant to slapdash.
An Anxious Modern Eyes the Eternal City
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The horticultural art of topiary dates back at least 2,000 years, to when the ancient Romans cut bushes and trees into ornamental shapes.
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A secondary aim of topiary pruning is to determine the root.
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Think of a lawn as flat topiary.
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Scenery involves aesthetics that raise guest happiness slightly, such as topiary art, lightposts, or benches.
Xml's Blinklist.com
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The horticultural art of topiary dates back at least 2,000 years, to when the ancient Romans cut bushes and trees into ornamental shapes.
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Small-leafed, slow-growing types of geraniums lend themselves to the painstaking art of topiary.
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He values all of his customers whether they are shopping for an elaborate piece of box topiary priced in the thousands, or a couple of pot plants.
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In that sense, topiary is almost the opposite of arborsculpture in that you're only trimming the foliage, whereas in arborsculpture, you're only working with the trunk.
Boing Boing: July 23, 2006 - July 29, 2006 Archives
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She says: ‘The form of the sculpture comes from the fantastic topiary trees they have there.’
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Unless you have acres of fancy hedging, trimming topiary is a treat.
Times, Sunday Times
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This year's he'll be showing a striking mix of traditional and modern topiary shapes in box, yew and bay, with a ground cover of sedum.