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 exploring every aspect of the subject of box and all things topiary. It would hold its own on a newsstand, but is only available exclusively to members of EBTS and a few privileged others.
To receive TOPIARIUS and the other benefits of membership, or to give it as a gift, and to help support and promote topiary and the use of boxwood in gardens and landscapes ancient and modern, join the EBTS at www.ebts.org/membership .
TOPIARIUS is a beautiful magazine brimming with intelligent, engaging content. The new edition includes pages dedicated to:
- News from all five EBTS countries: France, UK, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands (pages 9-13). French news this year focuses on the rejuvenation of parterres at Versailles
- Insight into how the magazine is created (p7)
- News from America, about World Topiary Day, Clipfest etc (p15-19)
- The inaugural Henchman Topiary Awards, the story of the outstanding winning topiary and its creators (p20-25)
- Hong Kong urban topiary (p26-31)
- Profile of a French landscape architect specialising in restoring grand historic gardens, at Chateau de Digoine in Burgundy, for example, and at Champ de Bataille (pp32-33)
- Danish garden design both modern and historic, including GN Brandt’s Vordingborg botanic garden and the Baroque garden at Frederiksborg (p34-39)
- An astonishing topiary garden in Somerset, created by author of the article Fergus Dowding and his wife Louise (p40-45)
- The history and contemporary status of topiary in Hungary by two Hungarian academics (p47-53)
- The technique of propagating modern box hybrids, resistant to the destructive box blight (and possibly moth) (p55-59)
- Book review of Prof. Roderick Floud’s book on the history of the economics of British gardening (p60)
- An appreciation by Hugh Burkitt, former chairman of the Academy of Ancient Music, of a new Baroque music disc, A Gift for Your Garden (p61)
- Shear Terror, examining the role of topiary and mazes in horror films and thrillers (p62-65)
- Artworks created by EBTS member David Joyce, garden writer, in his new career as printmaker (p66)
