Henchman, the UK’s leading garden ladder specialist, announced that entries are open for the 2026 Henchman Topiary Awards. Garden artists with sharp shaping skills are invited to submit their topiary masterpieces online by 12th April 2026 for the opportunity to showcase their craftsmanship and take home some fantastic prizes including the iconic Henchman Tripod Ladder, […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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. […]
TOPIARIUS 2025, the journal of the EBTS, includes an abridged version of this account of Hungarian topiary and formal gardening
by Chris Poole, former EBTS UK Chairman & Technical Advisor
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
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 […]