Madeleine Howell discovers a fresh approach to the art of clipping on the banks of the Thames Madeleine Howell is a lifestyle, features and travel publisher, writer and editor, exploring how to live ...

Grandiose shrubs painstakingly clipped into ornate designs were once the preserve of stately homes – but topiary is undergoing a renaissance among ordinary lockdown gardeners, often armed with nothing ...

Topiary was popular long before Edward Scissorhands clipped shrubs into fantastic shapes on the big screen. By the end of the 1st century, wealthy Romans were adorning their gardens with shrubs pruned ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The box pom-poms gracing Grey’s Court in the Cotswold village of Southrop are echoed all over the world, from ...

Good structure is to the autumn garden what good bones are to the ageing face. The difference is that autumn's soggy tendencies are easy to fix: topiary defies seasonal droopiness. It diverts ...

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Charlotte Molesworth’s garden, with chess pieces, peacocks, lollipops and tiered topiary in yew and wavy buxus hedges Credit: Photo: CHARLOTTE MOLESWORTH When the friend of a friend told me that she ...