Topiary - Art decorative shearing bushes and trees

Topiary is the art of ornamental trees and shrubs haircut. For millennia, green sculptures decorated extremely rich estates and palace gardens.Today it is the direction of landscape design is growing rapidly, gaining universal sympathy and great interest.Green skulptury- topiary today can be found in the capital's parks and on the streets of provincial towns, and in home gardens of wealthy Russians, and even the infamous 6-suburban acres.

History topiary

history topiary incredibly interesting.In one version of the founder of this art was the gardener Julius Caesar named Calvo, who was able to carve out a green bush bust his master.However, the elements and techniques topiary used much earlier: in ancient Egypt were common gardens with rows of trees and shrubs that have clear geometric forms, with decorative borders.Elements topiarnogo arts were well represented in the hanging gardens of Babylon in ancient Babylon.

But the real boom in this area was observed in the XVII-XVIII centuries in England, France, Italy: it was then created amazing masterpieces

topiarnogo art such as Park Villa Lante and the gardens of Villa Gartsoni (Italy), Garden of Luxembourg andVersailles (France), Kensington Garden and Hampton court (England), and others. His appearance in Russia this kind of landscape design is obliged to Peter I, who sent the gardeners to Europe to learn from famous artists topiary .

topiary Types

Today the art of sculpture green and diverse in style and technique.Modern topiary can be divided into 2 types:

1. Traditional topiary

already preparing the plant - a bush or tree - we cut, giving it the desired shape.If the desired shape is quite simple (sphere, cone), the crop is produced in the eye by conventional clippers.For the object of complex shape of the original tree or bush carefully digged metal frame required shape.And when the plant grows and goes beyond the scope of his trimmed along the contours of the frame, thereby obtaining the desired object.

2. New or US Portable topiary

This species differs from the previous in that the plant was originally cultivated in a special frame.The shape of the sculpture is made curly frame, she wrapped the fishing line and filled with a special primer optimal for this type of plant.Then put into this framework the necessary culture that grows, filling the frame and getting the desired shape.The advantage of this method - sculpture mobility, the ability to move it from place to place.

Plants for Topiary

addition to the technology of topiary, you must determine the type of plant.In central Russia is better to make a choice in favor of either annual or hardy species.To create complex shapes ideal boxwood, for simple - tis.You can also use the laurel, hawthorn, spruce, willow, which are also used for planting "green" fence - the hedge.Masters manage to create colorful topiary, through the use of different types of plants and flowers.

success in this field depends largely on the choice of instrument and possession.Conventional shears, pruners, shears for special topiary and even electric trim tabs, select something that used to your hands than speak better.

Art topiary unusually exciting and diverse.Try to learn the basics of cultivating the simple form, and then you can aim a blow at something more complex.By the way, is quite real to grow topiary figure at home in a flower pot, and thereby transform not only your garden, but also a balcony or a window sill in the unique Museum of Fine Arts.