Does anybody out there know what topiary is?

Answer 1

Topiary is the art of creating sculptures in the medium of clipped shrubs and sub-shrubs. The word derives from the Latin word for an ornamental landscape gardener, topiarius.

Answer 2

There is so many forms of topiaries.
Topiary is the art of shaping living shrub, tree or any plant.
Herbs like rosmary can be formed in various shapes.
Geraniums and poinsettias make good plants to play with topiary forms.
There are chicken wire topiary, moss topiary, wire topiary and on and on.
Please check this website: www.topiaryartworks.com
For specific information you can contact me.

Answer 3

A topiary is a plant or bush that looks like an animal.

Answer 4

Topiary is the sculpting of bushes and other ornamental shrubs into animals or objects.

Disneyland does a lot of topiary

Answer 5

http://www.save-on-crafts.com/maktabtop.html
These little darlings are for tabletops.

A topiary is a plant (bush usually) that's been gently trimmed and trained to appear like an animal, some abstract design, or anything but what it really is.

Answer 6

Topiary is the art of sculpting evergreen bushes or shrubs such as Yew or Box by trimming into various shapes or forms with shears or secateurs, such shapes as peacocks, spirals etc.

Answer 7

topiary is making shrubbery look like beautiful shapes, mostly spirals or the three puffs....people use shears to make theses shapes and are most proud of them

Answer 8

The pruning and trimming of bushes to create shapes. Repeated trimming of bushes makes the twigs grow much denser, and they can be 'sheared' and clipped so that with time, they can be made to look like animals or any chosen shape.

Answer 9

Plants, trees, bushes... Specifically shaped like an animal or an object. You know, like Edward Scissorhands did in the movie.

Answer 10

A plant, usually a shrub, that is shaped through pruning and training, often into people or animals, but they can be anything.