Topiary is the horticultural practice of training
live perennial plants by clipping foliage to develop and maintain clearly
defined shapes, usually geometric or fanciful. European topiary dates back to
Roman times.
Walt Disney – who
by now you must know was heavily influenced by Children’s Fairyland – helped
bring the American portable style of topiary into being around 1962, when he
used steel-wire frames through which plants extended as they grew. He
re-created his cartoon characters as landscape shrubbery throughout Disneyland.
Fairyland got
into the topiary game in 1999. The New York Times noted our achievement with
this headline: “Dusting Off an Enchanted Land and Adding Some Dragons.”
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| Behold the dragon's newly trimmed face! |
