The Complete Book of Topiary

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Enchanted Gardening
\/oa donH need a J- green thumb—or even a garden—to make whimsical living sculptures and elegant decorative designs out of plants. Using today ^s topiary techniques^ anyone can master projects ranging from a conversation piece to a masterpiece^ in sizes to fit living rooms, terraces^ small backyards or rolling estates.
Barbara Gallup and Deborah Reich are America's foremost authorities on topiary. Their work has appeared in The Green Scene and American Horticulturist. Barbara Gallup, whose work has also been featured in Vanity Fair, House & Garden, House Beautiful and Art and Antiques, heads her own company, Totally Topiary, in Stockton, New Jersey. Deborah Reich is a horticulturist and landscape designer based in New York City.
Indoor Projects
Fashion a bird from fragrant flowering jasmine for your windowsill
• Sculpt a snowy swan out of Glacier ivy
• Offer your hostess a moss-covered teddy bear with a basket of potpourri
• Festoon potted boxwood... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Enchanted Gardening
\/oa donH need a J- green thumb—or even a garden—to make whimsical living sculptures and elegant decorative designs out of plants. Using today ^s topiary techniques^ anyone can master projects ranging from a conversation piece to a masterpiece^ in sizes to fit living rooms, terraces^ small backyards or rolling estates.
Barbara Gallup and Deborah Reich are America's foremost authorities on topiary. Their work has appeared in The Green Scene and American Horticulturist. Barbara Gallup, whose work has also been featured in Vanity Fair, House & Garden, House Beautiful and Art and Antiques, heads her own company, Totally Topiary, in Stockton, New Jersey. Deborah Reich is a horticulturist and landscape designer based in New York City.
Indoor Projects
Fashion a bird from fragrant flowering jasmine for your windowsill
• Sculpt a snowy swan out of Glacier ivy
• Offer your hostess a moss-covered teddy bear with a basket of potpourri
• Festoon potted boxwood trees with tiny mandarin oranges to create a mini Versailles —in your living room^
• Grow a miniature rosemary tree
in the kitchen
Outdoor Projects
• Savor the fragrance and flavor of an herbal knot garden
• Interlace overhanging branches of yew, hemlock or cypress to form a tree tunnel
• Espalier dwarf fruit trees against a wall to make a backyard orchard
• Crown shrubs with clipped shapes of peacocks, rabbits and bears
• Train ivy over a wire mesh screen to create a shady corner
ISBN: 0-89480-318-2 $13.95 IN U.S. WORKMAN PUBLISHING, NEW YORK
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