Living Sculpture Topiary
Easy activities:
Indoor topiary
Community projects:
Shrub topiaries,
Sphagnum topiary
Videos:
Indoor Topiary
3-D Topiary
Resources
One of the older and more familiar kinds of living sculpture, topiary is the art of growing dense, leafy plants and pruning them into a form, or training them over a frame, to create a three-dimensional object. It relies on pruning and training to give shape to an existing plant. It also can involve training a plant to fill in a form.
Topiary is one type of living sculpture that has gone in and out of favor through the ages.
Garden-Based Learning Program, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University
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