Topiary is a form of pruning wherein a shrub or small tree is trimmed and trained into an interesting, elegant, or whimsical shape. Topiary shapes can range from a classic spiral or ball-on-stem to a ...

If you needed a giraffe in your front yard, frolicking with a deer while foxes, bears and monkeys looked on, Carlos R. Mello Jr. was the man to call. For more than 40 years, Mello was the go-to guy in ...

Put aside the shears and clipper brochures and forget the wire frame. The key thing that emerges, as the head gardener at the world’s oldest topiary garden shares the secrets of topiary, is that they ...