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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]