by Nick Waters Over recent years there has been a lot of (unfair in my opinion!) negative press over Buxus. The dreaded caterpillar, blight, you name it – there seems to be a lot of ill-informed opinion driving the average gardener away from the plant. It is true to say, box, sadly does provide some […]
Darren and Chris, who run the Learn To Clip course for EBTS, had the chance, thanks to a members kind donation, to offer a small piece of funding to a topiary student to shadow them as they taught for a weekend at Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue in September 2026. Below are the thoughts of […]
September 17-21 2026 By Charlotte Maclean and Elizabeth HilliardIn our anniversary year of 2026, and to celebrate 30 years of the European Boxwood and Topiary Society, EBTS UK enjoyed a fantastic tour of two areas of Belgium, Flanders in the north, which is Flemish speaking, and Wallonia in the south where the main language is […]
In September Chris Poole and Darren Lerigo of EBTS returned to Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue to deliver another beginners Learn To Clip course, as well as, for the first time, an Advanced Learn To Clip course. We have now taught well over 1000 people the clipping technique and the foundations of good pruning practise […]
In September EBTS returned once again to Waltham Place, that brilliant and wild garden and biodynamic farm in Maidenhead, to teach a Learn to Clip course. Students learn about the tools needed for topiary, and get to try out many different shears, secateurs and hand clippers provided by tool makers such as ARS and […]
Since 2015 EBTS UK has been collecting user generated sightings of Box Tree Moth, caterpillars and trap installations. All this data has now been added to the new map, helping train its algorithms to give better predictions in your area when combined with live weather data and new sightings. What’s more you can now also […]
0830 on the morning of Saturday 11 April saw me joining 14 professional clippers at Ichi-Coo Park near Charlwood, on the Surrey/Sussex border for a day of shaping hedges and topiary. What was unusual about the day was that we were all at the same garden at the same time rather than the usual situation […]
Modern Topiary, Darren has tried to distil everything you need to make and maintain topiary – from classic pants like Boxwood and Yew, to the clipping of Hawthorn and Beech.In Part 1, the book explores the craft of topiary, the foundation techniques you need to clip well. In Part 2, the book looks at the […]
EBTS UK is delighted to announce that Bunny Guinness has agreed to be a Topiary Ambassador. Bunny, daughter of one of European Boxwood & Topiary Society’s founder members, has worked alongside EBTS UK on many projects including her latest article for the Telegraph published online 21st March and printed on 28th March which focuses how […]
EBTS are pleased to announce, and give a huge welcome to, our first Topiary Ambassador, Jools Holland. Jools is a keen topiarist and both we and Jools are thrilled that he has become our first Topiary Ambassador. Jools has already thrown himself straight into this fun role and made a fantastic Instagram and Facebook post […]