Sharpen your shears and make a thorough assessment before you start cutting anything.

Jan 27, Topiary plants must be trimmed in a very specific way to maintain the health of the plant. Trim a topiary with help from a landscape designer and horticultur. Apr 08, The perfect shrubs for a topiary are small-leafed plants like Juniper (Juniperus), Privet (Ligustrum), Boxwood (Buxus), Myrtle (Myrtus), Holly (Ilex), Rosemary (Rosmarinus), and Brush Cherry (Eugenia). There are various shapes of topiaries such as a cone, pompon, and pyramid, but the most popular are the stumpclearing.barted Reading Time: 7 mins.

Sep 24, Smaller topiary looks great in containers or borders, where clipped evergreens make a sharp contrast to colourful informal planting, in pairs to flank paths or gates, and as focal points. Box and yew. Mar 23, Evergreen trees and shrubs will work well for creating such topiaries.

The best way to get a natural look is to plant trees that have almost similar shapes. For example, a pyramid-shaped tree can be utilised to get a triangular shape. While the spiral shape can Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Feb 10, The shrubby honeysuckles are the most biddable of a range of evergreen shrubs and small trees that aren’t always as amenable to advanced topiary as the two classics, box and yew, but well worth shaping, as long as the aim isn’t vegetable peacocks and giant chess stumpclearing.barg: globe topiary.

May 10, Linda Vater demonstrates how to prune a Green Mountain Boxwood into a lollipop topiary form.