Lierary, toiary is using nature as art. The usual meaning entails the pruning of live shrubs or trees into decorative shapes, eg animals. Not only is the art form called topiary, but the results of such pruning are also known as topiaries.
the art of trimming and/or training shrubs or trees into unnatural, ornamental shapes. It is an ancient gardening practice, and continues to be very popular.
ornamental pruning or hedging of plants into various shapes (generally refers to shrubs)
a garden or shrubbery trimmed and shaped into geometric or animal forms.
Clipping shrubs, hedges, etc, into decorative shapes.
Of or characterized by the clipping or trimming of live shrubs or trees into decorative shapes, as of animals.
a garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals
making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees
a good way to liven up a shady part of the garden
a plant that has been pruned and trained to have an artificial form
a plant that has been pruned to an unnatural form, such as a geometric shape or a whimsical animal
The ornamental horticultural art of pruning and training trees or shrubs to resemble animals or other objects.
A shape made by clipping plants. The practice was popular in Roman gardens and revived with the renaissance. Example 1 Example 2
Flowers or foliage trimmed into geometric shapes, often resembling miniature trees or animals.
This is the skilled art of clipping or trimming foliage or flower arrangements so that they take on the shapes of animals, lettering, numbers, or various but precise geometric forms.
The practice of pruning full size trees or shrubs into ornamental shapes.
A method of pruning and training certain plants into formal shapes such as animals.
The art of pruning and shaping trees and shrubs into decorative shapes.
The clipping of trees or hedges into geometrical or abstract shapes.
The clipping of evergreen trees & shrubs into shapes, creeping plants such as ivies can also be used in topiary
training, cutting and trimming of plants into ornamental shapes.
The art of clipping and training woody plants to form geometric shapes or intricate patterns. Box and Myrtle are suitable types.
Topiary is the art of creating sculptures using clipped trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs. The word derives from the Latin word for an ornamental landscape gardener, topiarius, creator of topia or "places", a Greek word that Romans applied also to fictive indoor landscapes executed in fresco. No doubt the use of a Greek word betokens the art's origins in the Hellenistic world that was influenced by Persia, for neither Classical Greece nor Republican Rome developed any sophisticated tradition of artful pleasure grounds.
