Now is the ideal time to get out and get pruning. Look at your outdoor space - does it look like an overwhelming challenge? You’ll be surprised just how easily messy shrubs or straggly, jungly trees ...

Stuck for a summer project? How about an enormous squirrel in the front garden? Maybe a Box hedge dragon? Head Gardener at Powerscourt, Alex Slazenger says topiary also has its more elegant side, and ...

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Put aside the shears and clipper brochures and forget the wire frame. The key thing that emerges, as the head gardener at the world’s oldest topiary garden shares the secrets of topiary, is that they ...

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