Helping restore Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue
EBTS UK provided a day of clipping and two training courses to help the new caretakers of the Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue bring this ‘yew-nique’ place back to its full glory.
Gardens of Northamptonshire Visit
Thirty seven members joined this two-day visit to Northamptonshire on June 25th and 26th 2025. We visited a a total of four gardens: Cottesbrooke Hall, Thorpe Malsor Hall, Kelmarsh Hall and Coton Manor.
Diseases and pests
Buxus is prone to a certain number of diseases and pests. These diseases can be virulent and every effort should be made to use disease free box in the creation of new gardens and topiary.
Floriston Hall and Tinkers Green Farm
At the end of May we were the guests of Dominic and Amanda Vail at Floriston Hall and Denny Swete at Tinkers Green Farm in Suffolk.
New TOPIARIUS for 2025
TOPIARIUS is the annual journal of the European Boxwood and Topiary Society (EBTS). The fabulous new edition for 2025 is now available, to members of EBTS. Our magazine is not a club newsletter, however. TOPIARIUS is a top quality, full-colour bilingual (English and French) international gardening magazine dedicated to excellent writing and professional quality photography […]
Enter the 2025 Henchman Topiary Awards now!
Win a HENCHMAN LADDER!DEADLINE END OF MAY 2025 It’s easy!Whether your garden is large or small,your topiary is grand or minimal,or something in between… To have a chance of winning, go into your garden,take some photos of your topiary and submit to the2025 Henchman Topiary Awardsvia their website at www.henchman.co.ukbefore the end of the month. […]
Hungarian Journey
TOPIARIUS 2025, the journal of the EBTS, includes an abridged version of this account of Hungarian topiary and formal gardening
Box T Pro Press after four seasons use – is it worth it?
by Chris Poole, former EBTS UK Chairman & Technical Advisor
Van Gogh in the Garden
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Vincent Van Gogh at London’s National Gallery offers an unusual glimpse of the artist in the setting of a formal garden within a courtyard
EBTS members helps restore ‘ROMAN’ BOX HEDGE
The box hedges growing today in the garden of the Roman villa remains at Fishbourne Palace in West Sussex, England, are not, of course, the same plants that were growing there in Roman times. Box is long-lived, but not that long-lived! Or at least, not on that site. The existing boxwood plants were established some […]
EBTS UK in Denmark
It’s not often that a garden tour commences with a fabulous fireworks display but this is exactly what happened to the lucky group who came on the annual foreign trip! In the heart of Copenhagen is a very famous garden, TIVOLI, which is better known for its funfair. It is also a garden which the Danes are […]
2024 Topiary Award Winners – To Paradise and Beyond
Picture above – Owen Simpson, Managing Director at Henchman, with winners Harrie Carnochan and David Hawson and TOPIARIUS Editor Elizabeth Hilliard By Elizabeth Hilliard, Editor of TOPIARIUS The prizegiving of the UK’s first ever national topiary awards took place on Saturday 6th July 2024, a day of torrential rain and magical sunny spells, at RHS […]
TOPIARY AWARDS’ Runners Up
The winners of the inaugural Henchman Topiary Awards were announced on 6th July 2024 along with several runners up – see other article for more. Each runner up received a letter of congratulation from TOPIARIUS Editor Elizabeth Hilliard along with a copy of the current issue of the exclusive EBTS membership magazine. Henchman issued the […]
Price reductions to help fight Box Tree Moth & Caterpillar
A number of companies have introduced lower prices on their treatments for box tree moth and caterpillars
Box T Press Pro – How well did it work?
Chris Poole shares his experience of its use at two different historic properties.
Box Growers, Designers and Product Suppliers – Discussion
On a wet Tuesday evening EBTS UK held a Box Growers, Designers and Product Suppliers – Discussion via Zoom. The intention was to find out more about why Box gets such a bad press and what EBTS UK can do to help, assuming that’s what people thought should happen. Watch the discussion below and if […]
What came out of a trip to Sweden?
In June last year, Darren Lerigo and I ran a ‘Learn to Clip’ course for GardenConservation.eu an organisation that aims to bolstering awareness, expertise and skills within the conservation of historical gardens as cultural heritage. This was a practical workshop based Gunnebo House and Gardens in the West of Sweden near Gothenburg. It followed on […]
WIN PRIZES with TOPIARY
Calling all budding home gardeners and topiary artists! The competition is now closed but why not enter in 2025?
Better Boxwood!
Better Boxwood® is the culmination of two decades of rigorous selection and testing and it is now available to purchase in the USA.
Open your garden for World Topiary Day 2024
Once again there will be an opportunity to celebrate the wonders of topiary gardens on World Topiary Day. How about opening your garden?
New distributor for Betterbuxus® in the UK
Good news, Herplant BV will be partnering with Plantmarket BV to distribute their blight resistant Buxus hybrids in the UK