Topiary art

Topiary art or the art of figurative cutting of trees and shrubs is one of the most interesting trends in landscape architecture.

Back in the days of Ancient Egypt, China and Persiapeople began to give the bushes geometric shapes for their more interesting look. This art has passed through the ages and has developed quite widely in our time, and has also gained great popularity.



With the help of topiary, you can grow a plant or a whole group of plants in your area, not only in the form geometric shapes (balls, cones, pyramids, cubes, disks, spirals, columns), and also in the form of different Animals, birds, fairy-tale and cartoon heroes (moreover, this is not a complete list).

With them, your site will be spectacular andoriginal, in addition, in children, he will cause a huge stir. Plots with plants in the form of bears, elephants, chanterelles, dogs, etc. - will become favorite places for games and recreation.



Topiary art is very beautiful and elegant, andbecause plants with such a "fashionable hairstyle" must become the subject of attention and enjoy growing popularity among many garden owners.

Garden with cut plants always lookswell-groomed, being the pride of his master. Of course, not everyone can decide to grow plants of artificial forms in their garden, but it's worth it.



The right choice of plants for haircuts - this is half the battle in creating a topiary masterpiece. As a rule, for this purpose, plants are used that are well suited to shearing and form a dense crown, with numerous branches and densely covered foliage.

Molding is amenable to many coniferous, deciduous,ornamental and fruit crops. Today, in the fashion of stale trees. Crown apple, pear and other fruit can be transformed, making palm-like, fans - it will look unusual. Very popular are also haircuts in the form of umbrellas from Irga Canadian, Maple and Scots pine.



At the peak of popularity is the reception, which has been practiced for the last decade in European and American nurseries, is haircut combined with vaccinations. In this way,coniferous balls of golden, green and blue colors of various sizes or weeping forms, topped with sheared cones, etc. In general, there is room for fantasy.



But if you are not a fan of such experiments (at least for now), then You can start with simple forms. You will be helped in this by the ordinary hornbeam, thuya western, box evergreen, white yew, yew berry, common barberry, hawthorn and some other kinds of plants.



If you want to create evergreen hedges or individual shapes, then for this it is necessary to use plantsconiferous species: yew berry, western thujus, common juniper, spiny spruce that look spectacular all year round and especially pleases the eye in winter.

Those who want to avoid the predominance of green in their garden and are afraid of the same type, you can use mixed hedge type. In order to create this type, plants of the same species are usually used, but different varieties that differ in the coloring of the foliage.



To create beautiful hedges and sculptures it is recommended to use shade-tolerant rocks trees and shrubs. After all, usually the lower part of molded plants is illuminated lightly and the more photophilous plants simply discard the leaves in the lower part of the composition. Therefore, it is better to use an ambulance, a cotoneaster shining, linden.



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