Olympic Topiary
Has topiary become an Olympic sport?
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.
Topiary, Shaped hedges & Clipfest 24
Topiary and shaped hedges are in the news
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
Philip Guston’s take on topiary
Visitors to the magnificent exhibition of the work of Philip Guston may be surprised to spot the artist’s unique take on topiary forms
Celebrating 20 years of EBTS France
EBTS UK joins EBTS France at their 20th Anniversary Celebrations in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage
Cemetery tests blight tolerant Buxus
The ABMC tests blight resistant Buxus at its cemetery at Omaha Beach
Gardens of West Dorset
The first garden visited was Mapperton House, near Beaminster, the ancestral home of the Earls of Sandwich. According to a vote by ‘Country Life’ it is ‘the nation’s finest manor house’. The Earl and Countess’ son, Luke, and his wife, Julie, the Viscount and Viscountess of Hinchingbroke, live there and manage the estate. It has also […]
New addition to NewGen boxwood from Saunders Brothers
NewGen Liberty Belle™ is the newest addition to the NewGen® family as selected by breeder Robert Head in Seneca, SC. It topped the Saunders Genetics boxwood blight trials for three years running with its superior resistance to boxwood blight, good resistance to boxwood leaf miner, and beauty in the landscape. It is a petite boxwood […]
What Does AI Think Modern Topiary Is?
There’s been lots of coverage in the news and on social media about AI and how it can write material for magazines, newspapers and of course the web. So we thought we’d asked ChatGPT, one of the AI programs that’s available to use, the question – “What Is Modern Topiary?”
Hidden Gems in East Sussex
This was a new experiment for a day of garden visits in which members bring their own picnic lunch to enjoy whilst visiting two very special private gardens. The day was been organised by Charlotte Maclean, Deputy Chairman of EBTS UK, who kindly invited everyone to her garden for a lunch break and photographs were […]
Gardens in Kent
Review of visit written by Annette Balfour Lynn with photographs by Chris Redston
A good topiary listen
If you’ve got 35 minutes spare take a listen to Sally Flatman talking to Diana Boston & Chris Crowder about their lives with topiary
Cumbrian Delights
Mid-May saw EBTS UK members from across the UK & USA getting together in the delights of the Cumbrian countryside for the AGM weekend of garden visits and talks
Topiary Tribute to the King
I thought you might enjoy the attached topiary tribute to the King on his coronation. Our hedge had been looking forward to the event for just over forty years. I think it may be quite unique and, from the King’s perspective, being ‘You in Yew’ makes that exceptionally rare figure of speech… ‘the topiary pun’.David, […]
Creativity and Historicity in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire
Review of the day out written by Neil Cave with photographs by Chris Redston