Topiary is the art of growing trees and shrubs as living sculptures — cubes, spheres, obelisks, animal shapes or combinations of these. The tradition has flourished in various places at different ...

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 ...

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 ...