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
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 […]
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