Tips and Tricks for Top Topes
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- I hereby declare August as TOPIARY MONTH since it is when my myrtle topiaries…myrtle compacta…look their best. I buy them from Angels at Passiflora Kalamazoo in Michigan or starts from Monica at Sky Ridge Farms. But watch this video for other free options you can dig up from your own gardens.
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Oh I love your story about how you loved little trees & dug up ferns to have as houseplants as a little girl! I was the same way, & I still do that today. That’s how you know you really love plants
After watching you and Goose together, I’m convinced you need your own doggy!!!! 😍
You look especially lovely today. Thank you for the visit. I hope you know what a bright spot you are in our days. I like different shrubs, but boxwood are especially hardy in our extreme heat area. The espalier is so adorable! Your enthusiasm is infectious & inspiring.. Have a lovely week dear., 🌲🌲🌲🙏🙏🐞🌈🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸
I want to make a topiary out of everything I can now! Even all the tree's in my yard . I envision taking all the bottom limbs off and rounding off the tops! 😂
That miniature espalier is just everything!!! I'm wondering if I can do that next year for one of my fairy gardens ....
It is not cluttered and it does not look unorganised. i think it all looks great. My favourite is the rectangular terracotta pots. Especially the one with the three plants - a mini hedge. I like how you answer many of our questions as you go along - like how you started your love for topiaries - the history is interesting. Love from sunny Sydney, Australia.
I also keep my clothes forever! Love your outfits. You always dress so nice!
Loved your walkabout today! I actually went out this morning at 6:30 (temp was 77) & shaped up some topiaries and created two out of dwarf youpon hollies in large pots. My favorites to play with are rosemary, boxwood and three fabulous sunshine ligustrum! I'm obsessed with topiaries now and have several. Thanks to your introducing them to me and direction on how to accomplish some pretty darn good looking ones! I'm also having some luck with rooting clippings. You, my dear, have created a monster.....Thanks!
In a good way I hope!😂
What is that beautiful white plant Love to watch you still marvel how young you look. Beautiful.
I love boxwood but I love that anything can really be “topiaried” with thoughtful pruning. I especially love pruning things into a canopy.
First of all I am so going to miss Goose! What a sweetie! And I actually love small arborvitaes. I found some really tiny ones at walmart so I bought 6 and have them in terracotta pots in a long line as a centerpiece on my outdoor table. That is my favorite thing from this summer! I keep buying mid-size arbs and have them all over my deck in containers. They do very well like that. I have heavy deer pressure so need to keep them on the deck to protect them. I'm zone 6b in NJ and get to enjoy them through the winter.
Sounds charming!
Love globe arbs in containers too, especially the “golden” variety. I keep two in massive concrete pots on the patio for three or four years, then move them out into the yard and start over with baby ones on the patio again. They are so bushy and fluffy and so easy! 👍👍☺️
I love Myrtle topiaries and boxwoods thanks to your videos I have learned how to prune this beautiful plants 🪴
I love all your topiaries one day I will do one. I’m Still on the mend not 100% yet Dr said it will take weeks so continue praying as I get better each day if I only had an appetite. ❤️
I love your story about how you discovered botanical treasures in the woods outside your Indiana home. You have kept that same fun spirit of appreciating what you have, and creating beauty out of simple things. So inspiring!
Love that cool hedge topiary & your espalier topiary.
This 1st part has nothing to do with topiary, but I had to tell you! I planted TWO packets of seeds, different companies, and I had 1 plant survive and BLOOM the prettiest purple flowers! 💜 I'm hoping next year I'll have 20 plants!
As for topiary, I LOVED the little espalliered myrtles you had clipped into place! So cute!
This year, I've turned everything I could fit in a pot into a topiary. I figured if you could coerce your Sunshine Ligustrums to explode into bright yellow 💛 orbs in your back yard last year, then I could do the same. Those Sunshine Ligustrums were stunning!
Never tried a topiary, as not sure it would suit my garden, but you have me thinking about it. The coldest it's ever been here is about 7c (42f) so wouldn't need to worry about bringing anything in over winter.
Growing little trees is such a fun way to enjoy their beauty without taking up a lot of space🌲I had never grown Myrtles until I saw yours Linda🪴🪴🪴Mine are doing fantastic in their bright location. I’m inspired to give them a little trim since they have put on so much new growth🌳🌳🌳 Give Goose a treat for me 🐶 Love the cute red top and loose outfit♥️
Hi, did you purchase your Myrtle topiary online ? and if you did will you share the link ? I would love to buy one. I made one from rosemary and it is so tiny you can hardly see it I have had it for two years and I would love my first myrtle. Thank you
I just ordered from Kalamazoo. Thanks in advance I got it from LV suggestion
Hi Linda, I love your channel. I too have a great love for topiary. I have some holly bushes lining the sidewalk to my front door, when I bought this house 3 years ago they were almost dead from moss. I limbed them up cleaned out all of the moss and now they look like a beautiful row of topiary trees. I keep them limbed up because I love the look. 😄 Thank you for the information I took lots of notes. Debi from zone 9 Florida
I am really starting to appreciate topiaries more & more...thank you Linda for the inspiration!
I loved your story of Indiana and bringing the outdoors in. I am now on the Outlook, having repotted a free maple tree. Thank you! Love your channel!
This is my first season to buy/create/grow topiary, based on watching your videos. I have boxwood, Lemon Cypress, Rosemary & myrtle, all are doing great. Yesterday I purchased a Coastal Rosemary that looks like a miniature olive tree.
Think I will purchase a few baby upright rosemary to try my hand on little potted Christmas tree shapes. Thanks for the tips. Love all your topiaries!
Just purchased a boxwood to start my very first Topiary. I'm so excited!!! Love your show so informative and a wonderful education. Keep up the great work and sharing.
Boxwoods are my favorite topiary, but now I am experimenting with Hollywood juniper pom pom topiary as well as making several different styles out of Sunshine ligustrum. The challenge with sunshine ligustrum is they do grow fast so you need to trim them all the time which is a pro and a con at the same time. So far I am making a lollipop topiary out of them, 3 balls, 2 balls and several tree forms with exposed trunks and flat top. I am also making a pom pom out of a rosemary and standard lavender. Having more fun with it while unsuccessfully trying to keep annuals alive in Texas summer and they do well in composting. I do not like the heat of the Dallas Tx summer, cant wait for the fall to arrive. Thanks for your video's. Love the espalier you are making, how fun!
Boxwood & Juniper Girl here but after seeing your Rosemary, I may have a new obsession!!! 🥰
You have encouraged my foray into topiary. I'm trying English boxwood and rosemary.
Have made just a few boxwood topiaries, thanks to your wonderful videos.
Will you show us how you make the espalier topiary, please? I would be really excited to see that!
You are right, we enjoy our back deck even during Christmas & it sure comes in handy when the house is so full.
Linda's garden looks so beautiful!
I like working with boxwood the best, but my dwarf Alberta spruce topiaries are looking quite nice too. I just made two with compact Japanese Holly. They have great central trunks. Yours look lovely, thanks for the tour! 🌿🌿🌿🌿😃
I'm a few hours from Martinsville
I love Rosemary topiary form. I love that it is very fragrant. I also love the it can be trained into a Christmas tree form and adorned with fairy lights and fancy little baubles.
I have mostly shade in my garden, so I use ivy on frames as my topiary. Not exactly the same thing, but I enjoy the different frame shapes and the training process.
Boxwoods because they are abundant in my area.... I am trying my best with a lavender...but we had to have a tree taken down and the tree guys were not exactly gentle and they tore apart one of my golden euonymus.. Well, I went to it and now have a beautiful chinese topiary.... I am amazed how some shrubs take so nicely to it. I'm looking forward to trying other things. Thanks Linda.....and Stuart
I'm trying topiary for the first time now. I have two lemon cypress that I am going to try today! Thanks for the inspiration, I learn so much from you!
So far I just have the eugenia, boxwoods, and myrtle. I think I like the myrtle topiaries best. They seem to do super in our hot sun, Boise, Idaho, and grow quite quickly. That way I can prune them often. Love to do that, seeing that I was trained in cosmetology, it makes sense. Thanks for sharing...
I love rosemary
Good Wednesday morning. I’ve finished my gardening in time to catch your walk about.👍
Love growing small trees!💖 thank you declaring August for topiary.💖 Boxwood are definitely my favorite🥰
Boxwood topiary my favorite
Hi Linda going to try thr trees not sure how I'll get on but I'll have nothing to loose thank you forcall the idea's regards from the South East Coast of Ireland
I’m new to topiary this year, thanks to your inspiration. I’m enjoying working with boxwood, which seems kind of forgiving for a newbie. I am an impatient gardener so I just might splurge and buy a two ball topiary for my garden. I don’t think I can wait long enough for my little boxwoods to sprout a new level As alway, thanks for showing us around your topiary collections - lots of inspiration!
Thank you Linda for all the lessons on topiary, I have now gone crazy shaping mine. I would never have thought of creating them myself, I am so excited with the results... I have taken lots of cuttings from my box and rosemary.. All thanks to seeing your beautiful ones.. You give such Great advice. Thanks once again..
My very first last week was a boxwood. Anxious to try other mediums. Still exploring the plethora of other mediums! Thank you for this!
The shorte laurel , I think you could espalier it
We now pause 7 mins and 18 seconds into this video to say how much we LOVE and admire Linda’s front and backyard. Always a pleasure to watch. BTW, we called ColorBlends and ordered our first ever alliums and tulips - all because of you, Linda. And we made sure to tell them that. Your garden is so charming and heavenly! We love every inch of it, and look forward to seeing photos and videos of your uniquely beautiful outdoor oasis. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Now back to our regularly scheduled viewing. 😊
Hi Linda loved your little tree story 😁 I'm using Australian native westringia for topiary, the white flower species is so pretty and naturally grows in a circular shape 👍😁❤️
My fav topiary plant is cherry bush. I taught my granddaughter how to keep it up. I love them.
I also take donation plants and pot them up as well. However, I can't say I have a favorite. What I truly enjoy is hitting up the nurseries and checking out the fairy (garden) plants. I bring them home and make little worlds in containers. My neighbors all love my little creations! 😊 Those little clips you use for your topiaries are also used for orchids. I have bought them at Lowes.
Beautiful!! Thanks for the tour!
Aww sweet Goose. Everyone loves Goose 💘
Boxwood are my favourite. I love the small leaves and the fact you can shape them into any shape.
Beautiful.. ❤️
I'm just getting started and have two small boxwoods. The boxwood's are in quart containers so still pretty small but will see what happens!
Love the espalier!!! I'm dying to try pleached trees...might be a good way to start!!!
You and Nev have inspired me to try topiary!! I potted my first boxwood this year!! I get my sunglasses from Five Below since I’m always losing them. Most of my clothing and decor is thrifted 👍🏻
I’ve done Myrtle for many, many years but my new fav is Westringia. I have quite a large collection of them in many shapes. They winter beautifully inside in New England and are so very similar to Rosemary.
Being a Virgo structure is my delight
i had juniper start show up and i left it go and it is at least 6' tall and a perfectly shaped Christmas tree specimen which i moved to a good spot when it was about 3' tall
I just have two tiny boxwood topiaries that I recently started. I divided one plant into two. Thanks for the reminder to give it some fertilizer.
Juniper is my favorite topiary! Well I also love rosemary! I’m in zone 9a
I'm working on topiary buddlia and choleus.
You inspired me last summer to have Eugenia & Boxwood topiaries and I love them! Yours are beautiful!😍❤️
My favorite is my triple ball Eugenia topiary! Thanks for the video!!
Hi Linda great walkabout to day of a different kind. I use boxwood and rosemary. And Conifer and l am trying lavender at the moment. Just love topiary. Even more so since watching your channel. Just love the story on how you started doing topiary.
Rosemary is my favorite!
I have two myrtle topiaries. They are bare at bottom of the ball. This is second year and I am somewhat disappointed in them. I have a lot of box starts that I plan to form into topiary. The lorapetalum that i trained into two tall balls is my favorite. I use those same clips. LOVE that espalier. I have one long rectangular planter that I am training into a mini hedge.
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Personally, I think that the plant at the 12:00 minute mark would look lovely espaliered!!!
I have a lemon tree Grew from seed its about 8 inches tall and it's getting top heavy with leaves and a kind of naked stem SO I am going to train it to be topiary🤩 Thank Linda 😊
I really love topiaries and would like to try to start one. Any suggestions on easiest tree to start with for beginners?
Eager to see how your organize them.
Wow, Linda, you've been into gardening since very early on. My parents moved my younger brother and me to Florida my senior year, it was a 20-minute ride in to town so I didn't have friends. I was very unhappy. But my grades were good.
Many, many years ago I saw a bonsai demonstration at the Minnesota State Fair. I thought I learned enough that I could grow bonsai trees. I got as far as buying a couple shallow containers. Growing bonsais or topiaries is a commitment. I chose not to have kids because of that.
The closest I've been to topiaries is my PeeGee hydrangea standard I planted 20 years ago (I planted it in memory of my BIL). Yesterday, as I backed out of the garage to make an appt. I noticed it broke. I think it was just too top heavy and half the blooms dragged down the tree. Well, I'm going to do the one-cut prune on it today. There are far-improved varieties now that Tom will be pleased by. Coincidentally, the tree I planted 20 years ago for my beloved sister on the other side of my driveway, 'Prairie Fire' crabapple, has been slowly plagued with blight and is half dead so that also needs to come down. Jack Barnwell suggested a 'Monge' lilac for Marcia's tree and I can limb it up to look like a small tree. I wanted trees that bloomed during the month of their birthdays.
I love that you're just like us, following the same people. I share your philosophy on attire spending. Cheap accessories because they're so ephemeral and classic clothes because they endure.
Boxwood and Myrtle for me. But spanning out to other things this year. Lollipop or umbrella shape.
My favorite medium atm is boxwood and Eugenia. My double ball Eugenia is a member of the family at this point.
Lol!
I had a lemon cypress from last year that only the top was still green. So you inspired me to trim all the lower dead branches off. And now I have a lemon cypress topiary. And I do love the lemon cypress because of the bright green color. Around the base to contrast with that color I use the purple heart transcanthia. Now the lemon cypress is not hardy in my area. So I do bring them in and that's why most of the time they don't totally come back. It's only the tops that are still there. And I never thought about turning it into a topiary. So from now on whenever they're lower branches turn brown, I am going to turn them into topiaries. I want a couple of spiral Topiaries. I've seen people use a string as a guide to cut these type. If you've ever done it and you have a better way, please let us know. I also have those volunteer blue cypress or spruce I'm not sure which it is. That come up in my yard I have one that's fairly large. It's about 3 ft now. I was going to just dig it up and throw away, but now I am thinking about digging it up putting it in a pot and making it topiary of it. Thanks for your inspiration.
This year I’m trying your boxwood topiaries but I didn’t realize espalier sort of fits in w that.
I do have an espaliered dwarf apple tree and a dwarf pear tree. They are against a fence. Very cool way to grow fruit when you don’t want to take up the whole yard w a big tree.
Great video!
I love the little hedge in a planter, I think I will try one next season. And I’m really bummed about the small baskets☹️ I didn’t order along with all my big ones,,,,will they be back in stock anytime soon or am I just too late to the party, lol
And I adore Goose…your grand puppy 🐶
I think they are still available in gray? You might check it out as they might have been restocked:)
Hi Linda. I live down wind of an olive orchard and find tiny olive tree starts in my yard. I put them into pots and topiary them.,
Boxwood 😊
HI Just Love watching your show . I have a new love for topiaries ..I have started a small rosemary topiary excited to see how it goes . Take Care .
One of these days I may be able to make a topiary! 🙏🏻
Linda I've learned so much from your videos! I've been looking for the small terra cotta embossed (?) pots - that's on the top level of the black rack - with a double rosemary, at the 11:30ish point. Could you please share where to find something like this?
I've also enjoyed your QVC line, well done! Would you mind sharing notes about your drip irrigation? Thought I saw some drip tube a while back, but it might've just been a black hose 🤷.
The wintergreen boxwood.
I use mainly boxwood for topiaries but am ready to stretch my topiary wings! This summer I made two topiaries from coleus plants and they turned out really well!! Going to try to overwinter them inside but not sure if that will work!
I so wish I could see your coleus topiary!
Was that a hose link I saw over your shoulder there mounted on the brick? 😄
A Giraffe!
What you called tiny hairclips are orchid clips.
Thank you!
Saw your mother son dance and i teared up.thanks for showing it.
I vote for gum drop shape.
My choice for topiary material is anything i can leave out for the winter.
For rosemary topiaries, thst that the rosemary plant one buys for a cooking herb? Probably a dumb question but i tell my kids no ? Is dumb if you don't know.
Or is this ros4mary som3thing special?
Also not dure i got the nsme right of that white plant- montrose white
At 75, I recently retired so have been trying to keep expenses at a minimum therefore have thoroughly enjoyed your videos ♥ I have several sizes of Rosemary starts on the window sills all over my home. I will see how I do with my budget for a year then take the plunge at something larger. The only thing coming up in my half acre besides weeds are Chinese Elms. Do you think they would contain themselves in a small pot? THANK YOU for sharing on UA-cam and Instagram ♥
What is the grass that is growing between your pavers? Is it artificial turf? I love all the textures and shapes. I just discovered your channel,have subscribed and also have become a member. I used to have a passion for creating topiaries but overtime due to unforeseen circumstances I couldn’t do as much gardening as before but you have awakened my excitement to start creating them again. Thank you so much.
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Linda, love all your topiaries, but please check on the cherry laurel, I think they have toxic leaves. Luv u
Love this video. I’m just starting topiary. I bought a boxwood on sale and it had 3 nice plants so I divided it! Free plants!
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I tried myrtle last year but sadly living in Wisconsin they don't love being inside in the winter
To me those britches are the perfect summer jean.
I have mangled all sort of topiary medium...rosemary, boxwood winter gem, and yew densiformis. All were $10 each this spring, all still alive, but shapes defy logic.
The only one that still looks good is the dwarf Alberta spruce - it was $35 this spring, has grown and has perfect Christmas tree form. This one I did NOT touch.
I need to watch more topiary videos...
Could be the weather…
I notice that you are no longer wearing the mosquito deterrent bracelets. I did buy some on your recommendation, as mosquitoes LOVE me and I spend a lot of time gardening, but they just didn't work for me. I still get lots of bites, even though I wear one on each wrist and one on each ankle!
I don’t know whether the ‘Montrose Calamintha’ is the same as ‘Lesser Calamint’, white. I have 3 of the latter and they are spreaders. They are beautiful and smell really nice. It broke my heart to move them. I would have potted them if I thought about it. But they grow profusely that they would just outgrow my container.
Just started no favorite yet
the shorter cherry laurel would be great in a Bonsi shape/ why don't u get some wire and give that a try
I will!
I can appreciate your topiaries but they really don’t fit my gardening style. That’s okay! I love that gardens are a reflection of personal style, just as interior decor and style of dressing. And just as those things can change, so can my garden style. So it may be that years from now I will be referencing your topiary videos, lol. ❤️
I love this comment Denise! You are so right… It’s all about expressing our own garden styles. How would you describe yours and what plants do you rely on?
Linda (and all of you) I am trying a lemon cypress, myrtle and boxwood. I live in zone 7a; I’ve had to bring them inside because they just look like they are kind of burning. They aren’t in direct sun???? Any ideas? Thank you so much for your time. I do water them frequently also.
The squirrels are helping you by planting surprises for you……hope you appreciate squirrels more 🤷🏻🙏