Topiary adds structure to your garden all year round. And it can be easy to look after. This beautiful garden uses very simple topiary shapes – box balls and cones – in dramatic ways.
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44 Comments
This was very informative. I would like to include more structure like boxwood hedges and balls to my garden. I have had very bad luck with boxwood but your suggestions of other plants makes me think outside of the "box."
I am in North Carolina (US), but I think I lived in England in another life! I stumbled across your channel today and am delighted!
Thank you so much!
I am working on my boxwood game in America – thanks!
Very helpful… thank you!
Bought cone buxus but the leaves are drying despite me watering them. What am i doing wrong?🤔
Thank you from Portugal…
I have a young box plant in the garden with a larger leaf. Do you think it would clip to a shape successfully. Thank you
Very helpful!!
Beautiful, serene garden, thank you both for sharing.
Great video 👍 thank you for sharing
I really enjoyed your video. I would love to try my hand at box ball here in deep south Texas, USA. 🙂
This has been a most helpful article ~ thank you for posting it.
Very shapely topiary garden. Great advice. Do any of those topiaries flower and feed the bees?
Fabulous thanks Alexandra. Would you consider doing a few instructional videos on topiary for beginners. We'd like to see a couple of simple shapes being clipped. 💚👍
I loved this. Diane is a gem just like yourself… 2 treasures
Never trim Box until 10 days after Derby Day .
I wanted to see how they are cut, do you use a cage?
I really enjoyed this video and watched it four times in succession. I am excited to incorporate some simple shapes into my small carriage house gardens. Thank you!
Wonderful information! Thank you.
Awesome
This is such an informative video with excellent tips on caring for, and clipping your box. Thank you both so much!
I bought today 2 cones. Came back to this fabulous video to remind myself on how Diane planted hers
You make great content. Thank you
I loved the bit of being caught by the neighbors with a Hoover in the garden XD This video was so much fun and very informative, thank you!
Wow… looking for round boxwood tips and really lucked out! Thanks. Love the landscaping the owner has done.
Beautiful and nice garden design hjr
You missed the elephant in the room ; privet !
Thank you. This has been very inspirational. I headed out to the garden, with clippers in hand and created lovely shapes. And I really loved the results.
Thank you so much for this particular video Alexandra. I have a boxwood hedge that I planted as very small shrubs 30 years ago. I’ve maintained them in strikingly precise straight hedges that run up both sides of my front walkway and ends in a twinned curve at the foot of my front door steps. Passers-by reach over just to touch it and marvel, not believing it’s real. All these years I’ve had no problems with it, our irrigation system waters from above, I’ve trimmed in the heat of July etc. I do mulch it and fertilize occasionally with evergreen spikes. Over the last two years I’ve put a tarp down to catch the clippings so I’m not raking them out of the lawn. This year however I’ve got patches of mouldy brown leaves! I’ve sprayed with an insecticidal spray several times where I did see large funnel spiders scurry out and a large moth as well. I am worried it’s one of the two blights you mentioned, either boxwood blight or box caterpillar moth or is it just old age? Next year I will stop using the irrigation system and water from below and I will only trim in the cooler weather but for now, is there anything that you can suggest? Im in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada which is a growing zone 6b. Any input would be immensely appreciated.
One thing I haven’t been able to figure out is how to prune from a young plant into a larger, shaped box. Most videos show pruning once the plant is quite established. The same goes for hedge. In order to have it grow faster, I know some pruning is necessary, but it is hard to conceptualize from start to finish. I should mention I am in the United States and our tradition of topiary for the average gardener is lacking in cultural knowledge. Thank you!
Really enjoyed this video. It was informative, encouraging and entertaining to have your friend share her tips and techniques. Having successful amateur gardeners share there experience helps me be enthusiastic for my gardening skills development. Thank you for much for your You Tube Channel.
I bought 20 boxwood winter green.and eounymus plants. I’m begging to do my ball boxwood garden. I planted them my self yesterday . I’m very proud and happy. I can’t wait to see it
The ball is a hard start to Topiary beginnings .I started with a tall conifer that stopped light into my garden. I tubed it and cut sections into it as far as trunk. Thus leaving four rounds about 10inch deep and it worked well. Since then have had one more sectioned bushes with balls of top which took more skill than sections did .result looks good
For long handled Japaneses sword makers art I researched Holland man who is on internet sales making Topiary sheers so sharp out of sword forged hammered metal . Now for the surprise cost is not in thousands but mine made for me cost just 80 euro . Last life time light and easy to use, love them .Sharpen up sharp as ever. Without these Topiary is not the same
Great vid!!!!
Very helpful. Thank You
Love it thank you.
Perhaps my favorite gardening YouTube channel! You have helped me manifest my English-garden inspired perennial gardens around my home in Indiana, in the Midwest of the US. Thank you so very much. I just moved to a new home and landscape (dating to 1989) with a huge 5 ft tall by 13 foot long healthy boxwood hedge. It is about the only original landscape shrub worth keeping. So I am trying to educate myself on all aspects of boxwood, paying special attention to the health. I have been reluctant to prune or even water it, so your knowledge and tips are fantastic.
Your discussion here is really very helpful especially for a novice like myself.
What a fantastic garden. I'm also in Kent, lost a 3ft cone 2 years ago to box caterpillar while on holiday. This year i've really been on top of them, every few days doing the rounds and so far, apart from a few early in the year, i've been lucky. Sprayed once this year and only caught one moth in the trap. But i'm now using taxus (yew) for any new planting, more expensive, but bombproof.
Love, love , love!
Wonderful!!!!
If you could please tell me where you got the windmill at the end that looks like a tree. I LOVE IT!