This newly installed garden has many topiary elements to it including boxwood balls, cedar poodle trees, clipped yew cones and a juniper cloud tree. Other plant material commonly used includes Lavender ( Lavandula) for stepover hedges and Ivies (particularily English ivy) which are used with formers, be them hollow or stuffed with moss. Purple Tower Beech trees (Fagus sylvatica ‘Atropurpurea’), Common Hornbean ( Carpinus bettlus), Common Beech ( Fagus sylvatica,), are excellent choices for pleaching, for tall narrow hedges and for deciduous topiary. Some species of Pine ( Pinus) can also be used and they fall into this same pruning category with the additional limitation that they do not produce dormant buds further back on their branches.
Spruce ( picea) and Cypress ( Cupressus) are also used and have the same pruning restrictions. You must always stay well within the green when pruning them. However these two Genera will not tolerate being cut back hard. By hard pruning I mean they can be cut back to the bare branches and they (if the plants are healthy) will still put out new growth.Ĭedar ( Thuja) and Junipers ( Juniperus) are popular choices and more affordable. Yew ( Taxus) and Boxwood (Buxus) and Japanese Holly ( Ilex)are the easiest to work with as they can take a hard pruning, and do well with frequent pruning. Faster growing trees or shrubs like Privet (Ligustrum) can also be used but they require more frequent pruning. Typically slow growing evergreens with small, dense foliage and short internodes, make the best topiary choices.
What are the best plants to use for topiary?
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