When I was a kid there was a place up the street that often had a perfectly maintained hedge lining the front of their property.
Each morning walking up the hill to school and every afternoon on the way home I might run my tiny hand along the exactly trimmed and levelled bush, wondering how and why a plant could grow in an ideal oblong shape.
I pictured myself sleeping on top of it like a leafy green bed, and would test its bounciness and stability everytime I passed by.
As I grew up my wish to sleep on the hedge soon turned into a craving to dive through it.
Could I make it all of the way through to the opposite side? Would I leave a perfect person-shaped hole in my wake?
To my dismay I never did get to try out my hedge-as-a-bed plan, nor my dive-through-head-first idea, but the plant did instil in me a fascination with topiary that would continue through to my adult years.
An originally European custom, topiary was developed in the Roman Empire and first displayed in Roman gardens as complicated figures of animals and obelisks through Tuscany.
Also finding great popularity in Eastern Asia, topiary in Asia largely found form in more natural shapes and appearances, with an enormous prominence placed on simple designs and organic shapes.
In recent times nevertheless , topiary can be seen everywhere from botanic and non-public gardens to visitor attractions and theme parks,eg the Disneyland Resorts and Parks all around the world, and is even used as a creative kind of business signage.
So while sleeping on a bunch of leaves and branches or jumping in head-first throughout a living bush could need to remain a straightforward infancy pipe sight, recognising the tough work and effort put into designing these amazing displays of tree pruning and hedge trimming is something that will be very easily accomplished by visiting a area garden or having a expert create one of your own.
And with the craftiness shown in new displays, who's to say a hedge-bed is out the question? !
Each morning walking up the hill to school and every afternoon on the way home I might run my tiny hand along the exactly trimmed and levelled bush, wondering how and why a plant could grow in an ideal oblong shape.
I pictured myself sleeping on top of it like a leafy green bed, and would test its bounciness and stability everytime I passed by.
As I grew up my wish to sleep on the hedge soon turned into a craving to dive through it.
Could I make it all of the way through to the opposite side? Would I leave a perfect person-shaped hole in my wake?
To my dismay I never did get to try out my hedge-as-a-bed plan, nor my dive-through-head-first idea, but the plant did instil in me a fascination with topiary that would continue through to my adult years.
An originally European custom, topiary was developed in the Roman Empire and first displayed in Roman gardens as complicated figures of animals and obelisks through Tuscany.
Also finding great popularity in Eastern Asia, topiary in Asia largely found form in more natural shapes and appearances, with an enormous prominence placed on simple designs and organic shapes.
In recent times nevertheless , topiary can be seen everywhere from botanic and non-public gardens to visitor attractions and theme parks,eg the Disneyland Resorts and Parks all around the world, and is even used as a creative kind of business signage.
So while sleeping on a bunch of leaves and branches or jumping in head-first throughout a living bush could need to remain a straightforward infancy pipe sight, recognising the tough work and effort put into designing these amazing displays of tree pruning and hedge trimming is something that will be very easily accomplished by visiting a area garden or having a expert create one of your own.
And with the craftiness shown in new displays, who's to say a hedge-bed is out the question? !
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