Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Topiary is a form of pruning wherein a shrub or small tree is trimmed and trained into an interesting, elegant, or whimsical shape ...

Now is the ideal time to get out and get pruning. Look at your outdoor space - does it look like an overwhelming challenge? You’ll be surprised just how easily messy shrubs or straggly, jungly trees ...

The newly unemployed spending more time at home has led to a boom in gardeners taking up the time-consuming hobby of topiary. Dobbies garden centres says sales of topiary shears and box balls are up ...

Jakoti Hand Shears, £14.95 plus £2.50 p&p From Jakoti by mail order (01458 850066; www.handshears.co.uk) What you get: A pair of steel scissor-action hand shears with red handles, wire locking loop ...

If you’ve ever wandered around country estates admiring giant animals and other weird and wonderful topiary shapes, you may think it’s way out of reach in your own outdoor space. Yet creating simple ...

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