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Ivy Topiary
Tips on “instant” topiary.
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A Footnote on Sir George
Caroline Foley gives a fascinating account of one of this century’s greatest garden makers.
“ There was no greater butt for Sitwellian scorn, derision and poking fun than Sir George (1869-1943), our hero who created the beautiful gardens at Renishaw Hall…The secret of garden making was according to Sir George,‘ that profound platitude that we should abandon the struggle to make nature beautiful round the house and should rather move the house to where nature is beautiful’…”
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A Garden as Oxygen - to both Body and Mind
Karel Goossens discusses how by giving structure to our garden we can help to structure our own lives and in this way find our real destination or happiness.
“ The garden features prominently as an amazingly similar metaphor in so many accounts of the Orient, Antiquity and the Christian World – existing in descriptions of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and from then on to the Post-Modern period…..A garden is not only about having but also about being” |
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The Art of Topiary 
