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Choosing an Artificial Boxwood Ball: Size, Pairs and Mounting
The commonest mistake is buying a ball too small for the position. You cannot judge a ball’s diameter from a photograph. A…
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Care guides, buying advice, and inspiration for living and faux topiary — from the studio that has designed and built it since 2009.
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Preserved Topiary for Interiors: Balls, Cones and Spirals
Preserved topiary gives you a real plant that needs no water and no daylight. Seven feet of spiral juniper can stand in…
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What to Plant Instead of Boxwood
Japanese holly, podocarpus and yew are the closest alternatives to boxwood for a clipped shape. If blight or box tree moth has…
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Preserved Spirals and Cones, Against Live Ones
A preserved spiral is usually the right buy for an interior, because you never have to cut it again. Both kinds are…
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A Topiary Year: What to Do and When
Here is the whole year for all four materials, so you can see what is due now and what you can ignore.…
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Cone Topiary: The Easiest Shape to Keep
Buy a cone if you have never kept a topiary and want one that still looks right in three years. It forgives…
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Artificial Topiary Outdoors: What the Position Decides
Where you put an artificial topiary decides how long it lasts. Two identical pieces bought on the same day can look completely…
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Topiary for Shade and Low Light
Both living and artificial topiary can work in shade. Living plants are harder to keep dense there, but artificial foliage lasts longer…
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Which Moss for Which Job
Sphagnum packs a frame. Sheet and woodland moss dress a surface. Live moss is for shaded ground, where it keeps growing. Moss…
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UV-Resistant vs. UV-Proof Large Artificial Topiary Balls: What the Difference Really Means for Buyers
“UV-resistant” and “UV-proof” sound like two grades of the same thing, and the second sounds like the better one. It is usually…
