Ladies if you feel you’re to old to wear any fashion you’re drawn to just look up Iris Apfel. A 100 year old fashion icon. She’s a joy to behold. I started my topiary’s last spring and I must say it’s so therapeutic. I plan to start more as soon as possible. I lost the two Myrtle topiary’s I purchased at Nickleson and Hardy in Dallas from lack of proper watering. I’ll try again. I now know how to watch more closely. Linda you always look chic in any thing you wear. I love the way you mix it up. Hugs from Texas. Hugs for Stewart too
I absolutely love distressed jeans,sweatpants,tee’s, shirts…no time limit and ageless as far as I’m concerned! And I’m turning 71 years old in a couple of months…so there you have it💖
Thanks for the video, I am so into topiary, thanks to you. I am so glad the little candle pot made it to you safe and sound. I knew it belonged in your home. It looked perfect with your decor. As far as ripped jeans go, I know it is a trend, But I just can't do it. Everything you wear looks good on you. I can't handle holes, maybe it's an OCD thing. Because of you I dusted off my jewelry and started picking some for daily wear, even in the garden. My niece gifted me golden honeybee earrings. I love them. I will wear them in honor of the honeybees who find their way to my yard each year. Linda you are an inspiring woman, even though I am no longer a young chick, I can learn and grow. Thank you for that. Keep the videos coming..
I don’t wear jeans with tears…all my jeans must work for casual and dressy situations BUT I appreciate anyone who wears them and looks as classy as you do in them. 🌸
Linda, you have inspired me through many of your videos. A few days ago, I was so excited to see 3 daffodil blooms. That wasn't quite enough for a small bouquet, so I snipped off a few elephant ear leaves (survived on the patio so far in zone 8). I walked to the edge of the woods behind the house and saw a tiny bush (weed?) with pretty reddish leaves. I remembered you cutting something similar in your front yard a week or so ago and bringing it inside. I made a small arrangement with those three and it makes me happy each time I see it. Thank you for all you share :)
Yes, I have bought the 1 gallon and shaped it myself, I have a lilac standard circled with boxwood hedge in my back yard, I have an ivy on a heart shaped wire frame, I have 3 double balled topiary, that I shaped myself, I have started a couple boxwood from cutting, but it’s not always successful, I was so happy when I met you via u tube Linda! Your a kindred spirit!
1. Started my first topiary last year thanks to your amazing inspiration. 2. Love the tshirt and I'm going shopping for them. You are never too old to rock those ripped jeans if you feel good in them. :)
I started with topiary last spring. I never cared for them in the past because I prefer a natural, woodland style. That changed when I started following you. The look grew on me and I bought a myrtle and a lavender. My myrtle is overwintering inside (5b) nicely but my lavender is struggling. I cut it back severely and it’s coming back! I added to my collection this winter and now have two of each. Thank you for expanding my horizons
I like to find old cookie sheets or baking trays to put my plants in to collect water. A lot of times roaster pans will have handles which makes it easier to move your plants around from place to place
I cant wait to start a topiary. I've only been watching for the past 2 weeks thanks to my cousin. I'm so inspired with everything you do Linda xx Dawn from the UK xx
I am in love with topiaries!! This last growing season, I found all types of smaller shrubs that I pruned into topiary forms. My new favorite plant to prune up is Rose of Sharon. They grow so well here.in NE Ohio and they respond so well to pruning. So beautiful and elegant. All inspired by you!!
I myself just started to wear ripped grandma jeans My adult kids liked them. No age cut off. Love your t-shirt. Thanks for sharing your topiary knowledge.
I used to think of topiar;y as strictly formal, but I think you've modernized it, made it easy, and made it more accessible - as in tabletop topiary. I love buying the smaller specimens at Trader Joe's (Norfolk pine, Lemon cypress, ivy). And I like the one gallon size from nurseries or big box for my outdoor topiary in containers (boxwood, dwarf Alberta, Skypencil holly). I, too, LOVE graphic tees. I am going to buy one of your Boxwood Babe ones!
Hi Linda! Gently pat calendula cream or ointment on the scrape several times a day to heal fast and prevent scarring. Varying degree ripped jeans have to do with a person's personality, vivre, no age limit.
I had never really appreciated topiaries until I started watching your videos. Last season I turned one of my small pines into a lollipop topiary & I just love it! And I started shaping 2 boxwoods with your egg obelisk from QVC! I say wear what you like & feel good in! I live in jeans so I like all types.
You inspired us two summers ago to create some topiary and we love them. Just recently I renovated an indoor room in my house from a storage room to a laundry room. With no window, the room could not support plant life and was rather blah. I went online and found a dried topiary in a clay pot. It still feels alive even though it’s not, and adds a garden touch to my laundry center!
Loved this episode as it’s serendipitously timed with Lowe’s clearance in 7b. I bought several one-gallon SL boxwoods for $5 each. A few pots had more than one shrub that I fearfully separated; one container had FIVE plants! I’m excited for further inspiration today!
You introduced me to topiary and just started a privet. Would love to start a lemon cypress. Have also started rosemary topiary I like the britches you wear. Don’t feel there is an age limit, even though I don’t have any, plus I am considerably larger than you. Love your fashion epilogue.
My feeling has always been wear what gives you joy no matter what your age is. I'm 64 and still rock my ripped jeans and like you i Love graphic T-shirts from goodwill and my old concert Ts. You have inspired me to be a better gardener, so I thank you.Enjoy the nice weather .
Hello fellow gardeners, I am sending you all greetings from my zone 7 a garden in Germany 🇩🇪. I started topiary last year inspired by our favorite gardener named Linda and I am very grateful for this because I hadn't known how much I love them. My question to you is have you ever forgotten to clip a Myrtle and found it covered in a million little white flowers which smells really special. I did and it is wonderful and worth a try at least with one of them you have, just for a little extra fun. ❤️
Hi Linda! I have always admired topiary but thought it was too intimidating to try creating a topiary myself. I have purchased several from Passiflora and they are so beautiful, especially the "mucked up" pots they are planted in. Thanks to you I decided to try making one and have to say it is almost an obsession. Every time I go to Lowe's, Home Depot, or garden centers I look for the characteristics you described to find the right plant with a strong center branch. It is personally gratifying and very calming to spend time creating something from nature that provides a great amount of joy.
Leather dye is your answer to finding a skinny red belt. Find a belt style you like at a thrift and use Angelus leather dye to dye it any color you need. It's super easy to do and will only take about 15 minutes. Oh, and I think there's no age limit to anything a woman should wear. If it makes you happy, wear it. Life is too short to be concerned about what others think.
my Dollar Tree sells the round iron topiary forms in small, medium and large. They also sell pumpkin shapes in the fall, snowman , trees and candy cane shapes in the winter ,,, bunny shapes for spring. Endless possibilities
I did my first topiary last fall when my garden store had there landscape plants half off. I bought a one gallon boxwood and followed your video to sculpt it into a topiary. Such fun!
After I watched your first video on topiaries, I began collecting and making topiary. I am hooked. I have lemon cypress, myrtle and boxwood. I started the boxwood and lemon cypress myself.
I am one of those older ladies in my 80's who enjoy the ripped jeans look on others. In my day if you wore ripped jeans you were poor and could not afford to get a new pair. But then we did not wear jeans unless we were playing outside. Dresses, skirts and blouses were the attire of the day for school and no sneakers for school. Wow, now that really dates me!!!!!
Topiaries are starting to grow on me(pun intended), thanks to you! I used to think they were snobby and pretentious. But you are neither. They also fascinate me because I can do something with the unexpected volunteers that happen in my garden. I feel badly for all the ones I have composted in the past. My first endeavor was a holly tree/shrub and it was getting too wide for the narrow side yard of our house. The ball of it is now taller than myself and I don’t get spiked anymore! I would send you a picture but I can’t figure out how to do it 🤯 As for ripped and frayed jeans... I embrace them! Why I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I’m 68 yrs old and I what to be cool or maybe because if the rip is on my thigh I can slip the bottom of my wineglass under the threads and it becomes a wine holder of sorts. 😁
No age limit on the ripped jeans or anything else one enjoys wearing. If you like it and feel good in it it elevates your mood and sets the tone for the day! You always look so put together!!
Thanks to your inspiration I have made 6 topiary. Two out of lemon cypress, 2 out of boxwood and 2 that grew in the garden and I'm not quite sure what they are! I'm 66 and for me I just wouldn't feel put together if I wore ripped jeans. But everyone needs to wear what feels right for them.
I’m 68 years young & personally don’t wear ripped jeans (my OCD) but, to each their own. Wear what you like! I l went from a size 20 last year to now size 6 & am throughly enjoying fashion. I love to see what you are styling. Linda, you are so attractive! We think alike in our thrifty ways of putting all things together wether it is clothes or our gardening. Belts: Amazon, Walmart & Target….I keep an on on after season clearances (belts @ half or third the price.) Love your videos.
i always watch your topiary videos all the way through! I just love that " bracelet" find /tip that you shared at the end! I have super long hair, and now im going to go look for some hair bands with flowers like those to wear on my wrist- so kool!
I loved today's Topiary vlog, it was very informative. Im deciding where I'm going to use boxwood or "experiment" on an azalea. Regarding "ripped" jeans, I think it's a personal decision. I don't currently wear ripped jean, however I have some vintage Levis with shredded areas that I'm going to patch with Liberty of London fabric.
I’m 61 and sometimes wear jeans with worn spots or small thin tears n them. I don’t like the large holes. If they are not indecent, I say wear what you want. I’m glad I preordered your book for the topiary chapter.
Linda I enjoy your videos so much and I always look forward to them and have learned so much from you! I garden in zone 8b and I have tried topiary only a couple of times without much luck. I will keep on trying. I love distressed jeans and plan on continuing to wear them. I am 62 and I have also wondered if there was an age limit for them. Lol! Mine are worn out since they are my faves. Thank you for continuing to inspire us. Hello to Stewart!
I started four topiaries last year after one of you spring videos. I did round boxwoods. I brought them in the house this winter, due to our harsh winters in WI. Two survived and two have died. Looking forward to doing a couple more this spring as soon as my garden centers receive their new stock. I love topiaries and all of the information you have shared on their care!
I've never bought or made a topiary. But as of recently, they are growing on me. I live in East Texas and saw a standard althea at a nursery. I have several altheas and it's so easy to take cuttings in the spring and root them in glass jars of water. So a few years ago, after a rooting was growing up very leggy, I decided to stake it up and after it got about three feet tall, I cut off the top. When the subsequent new shoots would get to be about six inches long, I'd cut them. I now have a standard, lollipop shaped, althea. They're not evergreen, but will leaf out and bloom all over during the summer. Thanks for your videos. Love your bracelets!
Linda, you peaked my interest in topiary last year and I love having many types and shapes. In fact this is the second year my husband has given me a gorgeous pink Azalea tree in topiary form for Valentines Day. My husband also enjoys the fact the Azalea plant will last unlike the roses I toss after a week. Regarding ripped jeans, I do wear them and style them with a classic top to clean up the look. My motto is if you feel good in it you can wear it!
I really love the Indian beaded leather belts and was fortunate to find one while thrifting! I love the bright primary colors! Also, I’m not too hip on the huge ripped jean. I do think there MAY be an age cut off for the more radical “ripped”look (I’m 66). I AM wearing a pair of my favorite Cold Water creek knit boot cut jeans that I bought YEARS ago when I worked there and yes, they DO have “rips” but they are lovingly added due to our elderly kitties in need of love and attention. The “rips” are very slowly making their own design but none of them are larger that’s 1”at this point! I think I read in an article that the CEO of Patagonia (?) said they most likely would never create a ripped look jean. He felt that one must EARN the right to that particular look through the wearing and using of your jeans!
I started some rosemary topiaries last fall because of your blogs. Can't wait for them to grow more this spring. Love wearing jeans, but I do not wear the ones with tears ( age 66)! Love your channel!
Do we do topiary!! How can we not, if we watch your videos? Yours are so beautiful and you explain how to create so that we are all inspired to run out to our nearest plant sellers and buy them. I confess to having a boxwood addiction, but I think that Lemon Cypress is a beginner's dream. I think they are the easiest to do - lollipop, high cone shape, or spiral, or even double topiary. If I can do it anyone can!! Thanks Linda!💚🌳
Hi from Australia🦘 I haven’t watched you for a long time so I am thrilled to be back as one of your loyal viewers now. You have class and your topiary ideas definitely appeal to my creative side. Thank you Linda. You are indeed a star 💫
Thanks for the encouragement: I’ll try my hand at a wreath topiary using an unconventional vine-maybe a clerodendrum varietal. I don’t mind jeans with small holes, but am not fond of those with large holes or large cut-outs. Jeans are for all people of all ages. 🙂
I started topiary after being hooked on your blogs. I love all of yours, looks perfect with your English Tudor home. I have a big boulevard juniper in the ground that is my big topiary, I also have a san jose bonsai planted in the ground. I have some small boxwood that I bought and cut to trim in a topiary form. I also have a white pine that i am training. I plan to look at getting more this Spring, I love them......
Starting this year with topiaries inspired by your channel. No age limit on torn jeans however, ripped jeans in the right places on your body is a must.
Yes. Love topiaries and have been working on them since I found you last April on Utube. The boxwood and lemon cypress are my favorites. I have a good many topiaries from garden volunteers…cedar and holly. Love your bracelets and think everyone should wear what they love frayed jeans and all. Looking forward to your book.
I am so interested in trying my hand at topiaries! This was so good because I have been a bit "sheepish" about my ability to do them. I think I will start by going back and watching, from the links you have put, the how-to start and create a topiary. I love ivy and really love the way they look in a topiary...they are just so "classy" to me. Again, after we move, I have many ideas on how I would like to try my hand at ALL sorts of things! Your book will also be of GREAT HELP and I am excited to read every page!! As always, thanks for a wonderful watch!!
Style is how YOU feel, Linda, I love that you wear what you feel, Iam 59 and I love jeans with tears in them I also have an 18 year old granddaughter that Iam very mindful of but she always says Nana I love your style!
Ciao from Italy, i'm interested in Topiary, just stoped this video, running out to get 1laurel plant that gave to me a friend, had it almost 1 year didn't know what to do with it, trimmed it so now it will be my first try🥰, must to change to beautiful pot, i have another laurel growing love the smell of it, ciao.😘
Linda, you have inspired me and I was at the garden shop today looking for plants I can make into topiaries & to use the egg shaped trellises I bought from your line. As far as the ripped jeans, I do not look good in them and the only ones I have I wear when I do my garden work. You, however, could wear a burlap sack and you would look great!! Can't wait for the book I pre-ordered!!
... you have made me fall in LOVE with topiary... It wasn't my style at all but I am beginning to incorporate it in my farmhouse-style backyard. My home is a two-storey brick colonial, laid in Flemish Bond. It's the same vintage as your Tudor, and because the backyard is totally private, my style out back is actually farm style. (I keep things classic out front.) I have a lot of wash tubs; a windmill; and a galvanized stock tank that I use as my pond/water feature, along with my borders and beds where I garden for wildlife and pollinators. (I'm certified several times for wildlife, birds, and butterflies.) When you step through the back gate you enter the country, and folks are always amazed, as it is unseen from the street. I've purchased all of your products (and I'm still waiting for those pineapple finials to return; forgive me for hav8ng to hear about this again! 🙃 My mode of decorating is colonial style inside, and as you know, pineapples are symbols of "welcome".) Regarding ripped jeans, I feel as long as one can rock it, age is no limit. (...and I wish I was built like you, with straight hips!) 🤣🤷🏼♀️💟👩🏼🌾💚 =^..^=
I love the outfit of the day and the hair band idea for a bracelet! Very cute! I also love the textural element of ripped denim. I don’t personally like the ones that are super cut open down he front and obviously contrived. But I do like the ones that look more naturally and authentically worn through. LOL! At 61 I wear what I like and I make no apologies for that. I tend toward a bohemian slant and love to put together cute, practical outfits that express some creativity. Linda, you are my role model in that!❤️🤩. I want to check out that greenhouse in Kalamazoo that you mentioned, since I am a Michigander as well. The topiaries are so gorgeous and it has been many years since I have done one. Time to fix that! Thanks so much for all you teach us. You and Stewart are my fave.🥰
Linda, thanks to you I just might try my hand at topiary! On another note I just have to say that I LOVE the floor lamp in your video right behind you. It looks like it's made from wood? Where did you get that? Please share! Thanks! Ayron
Love your vlogs and very much look forward to them!! Feel as though I’m visiting with a close friend which is very comforting to me especially during these times of Covid. I’ve never done a topiary before but after watching your garden tours and today’s video I’m inspired to create one this spring. Regarding your question, definitely not a fan of torn britches for anyone at any age. As much as clothing cost nowadays I don’t need to be paying for clothing that purposefully looks used and abused. I’ve always tried to take good care of my clothes and think of the “used torn look” as a passing fad. No disrespect to your outfit (you always look awesome) or anyone who chooses to wear clothing with tears & holes, I just don’t understand why they would want to. Guess I’m just showing my old age. :-)
Linda your videos have so inspired me from the thrifting, paint colors in your house, gardening tools, and topiaries. I have been wanting to try my hand at topiaries and will get started as soon as I see the boxwoods, yews and conifers arrive at the stores in the Kansas City area. I'm in 5b-6a growing zone, and will I need to bring the topiaries in for the winter?
I was growing a lemon tree and formed it into a topiary shape I plan on doing my two small boxwoods. I have 4 of your egg obelisks 2 black and 2 galvanized.. love love them. You gave me some good Ideas for them. I personally love the lollipop form❣Thank you for turning me on to them🌱 just saw on Amazon skinny belts what an assortment😁
I only have one topiary which is a boxwood that I bought already in its form. Now that spring is upon us, I want to buy some rosemary plants, which do really well here, and start some topiaries with them. I also have a really large elephant bush that I need to prune, and the clippings can be used to start new plants, I would love to have miniature trees from them. Lots of people do bonsai, but I have seen some in a more rounded form with a thick stem, so I’m trying for that.
There should NOT be an age cut off for anything. That is my opinion, but from time to time I feel like other people have opinions of what to wear at a certain age. I like those types of jeans too! You always look chic and are such a lady in what ever you wear. So I look at you and you are my rolemodel of what to wear 💚
I pre-ordered your book from Amazon. So I am waiting patiently for it’s arrival. You have inspired me to do a topiary. I will be trying this in the spring.
I brought a rosemary topiary inside for the winter and it quickly started dropping leaves, dried up, I could not figure out what I was doing wrong, and I gave up and put it outside and of course it didn't make it through the ice storms. Now I know that it probably wouldn't have made it inside my house regardless. I keep my heat way up, I despise being cold, and the poor thing just needed more water I guess. I will try again though, cause Linda has shown us how, explained everything so well that I know I can do this. Here's the thing: once you have one topiary that you create and nourish and tend to - it creates the need for more. And more ! And you know what, if I'm going to hoard something, I think it's okay to hoard topiary for my gardening/therapy sessions. It's all relative. If you have a big yard or big garden space, you can space your plans out and it won't look like a hoard. But if they are all bunched together, it looks.... well.... like hoarding. It doesn't look organized or well thought out. So I'm going to set up vignettes like my yard like Linda has done, and place big pots with topiary of some type.
After struggling this winter to bring inside the 5 Eugenia topiaries that I adore, I've decided to stick with the topiaries that can stay outside during the winter. (The only exceptions will be my hibiscus standards and a few miscellaneous tabletops.) I love boxwoods, of course, but I really love my oleander standards, my rose standards, the bay tree standards, and gardenia standards. I can keep all of these outside in my 8A NC coastal zone, and they are all evergreens except for the roses. (Even these stay green and bloom up until December.) My oleander standards started blooming in spring and did not stop until late fall! Thank you, Linda, for turning me on to topiaries exactly 2 years ago! I have learned so much from you. I have pre-ordered your book.
OK. Fellow gardeners! I will work up the nerves to try a topiary. I think I will get one at the garden center if spring comes to Vermont and see if I can keep it shaped correctly!😂
I have never had a topiary, but I enjoy your videos on topiaries just to see your enthusiasm for them. I do not like any torn jeans on anyone of any age. It is a style that can leave anytime! Hahaha!
I wear ripped jeans occasionally. They make me feel young for some crazy reason. I’m 72 years young and I guess I’m a hippie at heart. Linda keep wearing them you really know how to put a look together.
I just started following your channel a couple of months ago and I love it! I was in Lowe’s today and and bought two box woods on the discounted section. I’m thinking of starting to try topiaries. By the way I live in the gulf coast area of south Alabama.
Can you teach us how to do cloud pruning? I have made some starts on topiary with my sunshine Ligustrum but I love the cloud pruning look. But it’s so intimidating!! Love your videos!! ❤️
I bought my first sweet Myrtle topiary at a local garden center at Christmas time. I pretty much killed it :(. I replanted it anyway, and happy to say I have new growth starting. Will pick up some Start fertilizer to give it. I have been having a hard time finding a lemon cypress. This spring I will check out Passiflora it is 3 miles from my home. Looks like the store carries wonderful items from pictures I seen posted during shop small Saturday.
Hey Linda, how are you? I am 60+ and have on ripped jeans currently. I've gotten tons of compliments on them and they are one of my most comfortable and favorite pair. Thanks for asking!
I do topiary and you have inspired me to do them... Myrtles, boxwood, eugenia. I like the trimming aspect. No ripped jeans for me, since my hubby doesn't think it looks nice. I do wear them, though, when I garden...
I love topiaries because of you, Miss Linda! They are so fun to shape. I like using Dwarf spruce. I look for really bad ones on the bottom where you would cut off anyway and then get them for much reduced prices. I guess I'm cheap! Plus these dwarf spruces don't have to come inside in the winter in central IL, 5B. I have boxwood ones, too. Love that bracelet that are hair ties. Clever and cute! will have to look at Walmart. Whatever you wear, you look so put together. You just always look good. Thank you for introducing topiaries to me!
Would love to see how you combine several small topiaries into one larger one. Love the hair tie bracelets!! You rock everything you wear, rips or no rips. I am 65 and usually do not wear rips in jeans, not to say I, wouldn't or don't like them, just havent purchased them. I haven't worn out a pair of jeans since the 1980's when I was crawling around on the floor with my children!! Have come close with crawling with the grands, but no break throughs. Haha.
Love all your versions of topiary! As for the ripped jeans; it really depends on the person wearing them. I think you wear them well. You are very casually stylish and youthful physically and spiritually. I on the other hand at 62 would look like I am trying too hard to look young and competing with my daughters in their 20's. My trendy version of jeans is just cutting them off at the ankles and letting them fray.
Ladies if you feel you’re to old to wear any fashion you’re drawn to just look up Iris Apfel. A 100 year old fashion icon. She’s a joy to behold. I started my topiary’s last spring and I must say it’s so therapeutic. I plan to start more as soon as possible. I lost the two Myrtle topiary’s I purchased at Nickleson and Hardy in Dallas from lack of proper watering. I’ll try again. I now know how to watch more closely. Linda you always look chic in any thing you wear. I love the way you mix it up. Hugs from Texas. Hugs for Stewart too
I love her!!
Iris Apfel is my hero in the fashion department. ❤️❤️
I absolutely love distressed jeans,sweatpants,tee’s, shirts…no time limit and ageless as far as I’m concerned! And I’m turning 71 years old in a couple of months…so there you have it💖
I love topiaries! I started some boxwood topiaries last summer because I love all Linda's topiaries.
I just adore you. Your lifestyle videos are my favs, though I watch all that you and Stuart create.
Thanks for the video, I am so into topiary, thanks to you. I am so glad the little candle pot made it to you safe and sound. I knew it belonged in your home. It looked perfect with your decor. As far as ripped jeans go, I know it is a trend, But I just can't do it. Everything you wear looks good on you. I can't handle holes, maybe it's an OCD thing. Because of you I dusted off my jewelry and started picking some for daily wear, even in the garden. My niece gifted me golden honeybee earrings. I love them. I will wear them in honor of the honeybees who find their way to my yard each year. Linda you are an inspiring woman, even though I am no longer a young chick, I can learn and grow. Thank you for that. Keep the videos coming..
I don’t wear jeans with tears…all my jeans must work for casual and dressy situations BUT I appreciate anyone who wears them and looks as classy as you do in them. 🌸
You are as young as you feel. Wear what you like, and that makes you feel good. I love all your topiaries, thank you for this video. ♥️
Linda, you have inspired me through many of your videos. A few days ago, I was so excited to see 3 daffodil blooms. That wasn't quite enough for a small bouquet, so I snipped off a few elephant ear leaves (survived on the patio so far in zone 8). I walked to the edge of the woods behind the house and saw a tiny bush (weed?) with pretty reddish leaves. I remembered you cutting something similar in your front yard a week or so ago and bringing it inside. I made a small arrangement with those three and it makes me happy each time I see it. Thank you for all you share :)
Yes, I have bought the 1 gallon and shaped it myself, I have a lilac standard circled with boxwood hedge in my back yard, I have an ivy on a heart shaped wire frame, I have 3 double balled topiary, that I shaped myself, I have started a couple boxwood from cutting, but it’s not always successful, I was so happy when I met you via u tube Linda! Your a kindred spirit!
1. Started my first topiary last year thanks to your amazing inspiration. 2. Love the tshirt and I'm going shopping for them. You are never too old to rock those ripped jeans if you feel good in them. :)
I started with topiary last spring. I never cared for them in the past because I prefer a natural, woodland style. That changed when I started following you. The look grew on me and I bought a myrtle and a lavender. My myrtle is overwintering inside (5b) nicely but my lavender is struggling. I cut it back severely and it’s coming back! I added to my collection this winter and now have two of each. Thank you for expanding my horizons
If you have luck with that lavender, I am extremely impressed! I love lavender Topiary, but they’re typically rather short term for me :-)
I just did my first lemon cypress topiary. Trimmed it into a double ball. You inspired me Linda. Love you and your channel
I like to find old cookie sheets or baking trays to put my plants in to collect water. A lot of times roaster pans will have handles which makes it easier to move your plants around from place to place
I cant wait to start a topiary. I've only been watching for the past 2 weeks thanks to my cousin. I'm so inspired with everything you do Linda xx Dawn from the UK xx
Welcome!
I am in love with topiaries!! This last growing season, I found all types of smaller shrubs that I pruned into topiary forms. My new favorite plant to prune up is Rose of Sharon. They grow so well here.in NE Ohio and they respond so well to pruning. So beautiful and elegant. All inspired by you!!
I myself just started to wear ripped grandma jeans My adult kids liked them. No age cut off. Love your t-shirt. Thanks for sharing your topiary knowledge.
I used to think of topiar;y as strictly formal, but I think you've modernized it, made it easy, and made it more accessible - as in tabletop topiary.
I love buying the smaller specimens at Trader Joe's (Norfolk pine, Lemon cypress, ivy).
And I like the one gallon size from nurseries or big box for my outdoor topiary in containers (boxwood, dwarf Alberta, Skypencil holly).
I, too, LOVE graphic tees. I am going to buy one of your Boxwood Babe ones!
Hi Linda! Gently pat calendula cream or ointment on the scrape several times a day to heal fast and prevent scarring. Varying degree ripped jeans have to do with a person's personality, vivre, no age limit.
I started doing Topiary after watching you, Linda. Now I am doing them for all my friends. You are an excellent teacher and topiaries are amazing!!!
I had never really appreciated topiaries until I started watching your videos. Last season I turned one of my small pines into a lollipop topiary & I just love it! And I started shaping 2 boxwoods with your egg obelisk from QVC!
I say wear what you like & feel good in! I live in jeans so I like all types.
You inspired us two summers ago to create some topiary and we love them. Just recently I renovated an indoor room in my house from a storage room to a laundry room. With no window, the room could not support plant life and was rather blah. I went online and found a dried topiary in a clay pot. It still feels alive even though it’s not, and adds a garden touch to my laundry center!
Loved this episode as it’s serendipitously timed with Lowe’s clearance in 7b. I bought several one-gallon SL boxwoods for $5 each. A few pots had more than one shrub that I fearfully separated; one container had FIVE plants! I’m excited for further inspiration today!
You introduced me to topiary and just started a privet. Would love to start a lemon cypress. Have also started rosemary topiary I like the britches you wear. Don’t feel there is an age limit, even though I don’t have any, plus I am considerably larger than you. Love your fashion epilogue.
My feeling has always been wear what gives you joy no matter what your age is. I'm 64 and still rock my ripped jeans and like you i Love graphic T-shirts from goodwill and my old concert Ts. You have inspired me to be a better gardener, so I thank you.Enjoy the nice weather .
Yes, I wear ripped jeans! I remember wearing jeans I embroidered all over in high school (70’s) so I’ve always loved jeans that are in fashion!
Hello fellow gardeners, I am sending you all greetings from my zone 7 a garden in Germany 🇩🇪. I started topiary last year inspired by our favorite gardener named Linda and I am very grateful for this because I hadn't known how much I love them. My question to you is have you ever forgotten to clip a Myrtle and found it covered in a million little white flowers which smells really special. I did and it is wonderful and worth a try at least with one of them you have, just for a little extra fun. ❤️
Yes!!
Hi Linda! I have always admired topiary but thought it was too intimidating to try creating a topiary myself. I have purchased several from Passiflora and they are so beautiful, especially the "mucked up" pots they are planted in. Thanks to you I decided to try making one and have to say it is almost an obsession. Every time I go to Lowe's, Home Depot, or garden centers I look for the characteristics you described to find the right plant with a strong center branch. It is personally gratifying and very calming to spend time creating something from nature that provides a great amount of joy.
I completely get it Ruth!
Leather dye is your answer to finding a skinny red belt. Find a belt style you like at a thrift and use Angelus leather dye to dye it any color you need. It's super easy to do and will only take about 15 minutes. Oh, and I think there's no age limit to anything a woman should wear. If it makes you happy, wear it. Life is too short to be concerned about what others think.
my Dollar Tree sells the round iron topiary forms in small, medium and large. They also sell pumpkin shapes in the fall, snowman , trees and candy cane shapes in the winter ,,, bunny shapes for spring. Endless possibilities
I love listening to you talk about topiary!
I did my first topiary last fall when my garden store had there landscape plants half off. I bought a one gallon boxwood and followed your video to sculpt it into a topiary. Such fun!
After I watched your first video on topiaries, I began collecting and making topiary. I am hooked. I have lemon cypress, myrtle and boxwood. I started the boxwood and lemon cypress myself.
I’ve never tried a topiary but I plan to try one this Summer with my 12 year old grandson, who is going to be my garden assistant this year!
I am one of those older ladies in my 80's who enjoy the ripped jeans look on others. In my day if you wore ripped jeans you were poor and could not afford to get a new pair. But then we did not wear jeans unless we were playing outside. Dresses, skirts and blouses were the attire of the day for school and no sneakers for school. Wow, now that really dates me!!!!!
Topiaries are starting to grow on me(pun intended), thanks to you! I used to think they were snobby and pretentious. But you are neither. They also fascinate me because I can do something with the unexpected volunteers that happen in my garden. I feel badly for all the ones I have composted in the past.
My first endeavor was a holly tree/shrub and it was getting too wide for the narrow side yard of our house. The ball of it is now taller than myself and I don’t get spiked anymore! I would send you a picture but I can’t figure out how to do it 🤯
As for ripped and frayed jeans... I embrace them! Why I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I’m 68 yrs old and I what to be cool or maybe because if the rip is on my thigh I can slip the bottom of my wineglass under the threads and it becomes a wine holder of sorts. 😁
Lol!
Too funny! A wine glass holder! 🤣♥️
No age limit on the ripped jeans or anything else one enjoys wearing. If you like it and feel good in it it elevates your mood and sets the tone for the day! You always look so put together!!
Thanks Linda. I think I'll give the topiary a try. You can rock anything you wear. ✌️
Thanks to your inspiration I have made 6 topiary. Two out of lemon cypress, 2 out of boxwood and 2 that grew in the garden and I'm not quite sure what they are! I'm 66 and for me I just wouldn't feel put together if I wore ripped jeans. But everyone needs to wear what feels right for them.
I’m 68 years young & personally don’t wear ripped jeans (my OCD) but, to each their own. Wear what you like! I l went from a size 20 last year to now size 6 & am throughly enjoying fashion. I love to see what you are styling. Linda, you are so attractive! We think alike in our thrifty ways of putting all things together wether it is clothes or our gardening. Belts: Amazon, Walmart & Target….I keep an on on after season clearances (belts @ half or third the price.) Love your videos.
Wow! I incredible you!
i always watch your topiary videos all the way through! I just love that " bracelet" find /tip that you shared at the end! I have super long hair, and now im going to go look for some hair bands with flowers like those to wear on my wrist- so kool!
I loved today's Topiary vlog, it was very informative. Im deciding where I'm going to use boxwood or "experiment" on an azalea.
Regarding "ripped" jeans, I think it's a personal decision. I don't currently wear ripped jean, however I have some vintage Levis with shredded areas that I'm going to patch with Liberty of London fabric.
That was quite lovely. I particularly enjoyed the closeups during the walkabout.....the commentary pretty cool too!
Never too old! You look fantastic.
I’m 61 and sometimes wear jeans with worn spots or small thin tears n them. I don’t like the large holes. If they are not indecent, I say wear what you want.
I’m glad I preordered your book for the topiary chapter.
Linda I enjoy your videos so much and I always look forward to them and have learned so much from you! I garden in zone 8b and I have tried topiary only a couple of times without much luck. I will keep on trying. I love distressed jeans and plan on continuing to wear them. I am 62 and I have also wondered if there was an age limit for them. Lol! Mine are worn out since they are my faves. Thank you for continuing to inspire us. Hello to Stewart!
I started four topiaries last year after one of you spring videos. I did round boxwoods. I brought them in the house this winter, due to our harsh winters in WI. Two survived and two have died. Looking forward to doing a couple more this spring as soon as my garden centers receive their new stock. I love topiaries and all of the information you have shared on their care!
I've never bought or made a topiary. But as of recently, they are growing on me. I live in East Texas and saw a standard althea at a nursery. I have several altheas and it's so easy to take cuttings in the spring and root them in glass jars of water. So a few years ago, after a rooting was growing up very leggy, I decided to stake it up and after it got about three feet tall, I cut off the top. When the subsequent new shoots would get to be about six inches long, I'd cut them. I now have a standard, lollipop shaped, althea. They're not evergreen, but will leaf out and bloom all over during the summer. Thanks for your videos. Love your bracelets!
I wear jeans with rips and I’m 66. I think they’re fun. Your bracelet made from hair ties are a kick!
Linda, you peaked my interest in topiary last year and I love having many types and shapes. In fact this is the second year my husband has given me a gorgeous pink Azalea tree in topiary form for Valentines Day. My husband also enjoys the fact the Azalea plant will last unlike the roses I toss after a week.
Regarding ripped jeans, I do wear them and style them with a classic top to clean up the look. My motto is if you feel good in it you can wear it!
Your hubby is a keeper for sure.
I do & love them! No age required ! I’m 63. 😃
I really love the Indian beaded leather belts and was fortunate to find one while thrifting! I love the bright primary colors!
Also, I’m not too hip on the huge ripped jean. I do think there MAY be an age cut off for the more radical “ripped”look (I’m 66). I AM wearing a pair of my favorite Cold Water creek knit boot cut jeans that I bought YEARS ago when I worked there and yes, they DO have “rips” but they are lovingly added due to our elderly kitties in need of love and attention. The “rips” are very slowly making their own design but none of them are larger that’s 1”at this point!
I think I read in an article that the CEO of Patagonia (?) said they most likely would never create a ripped look jean. He felt that one must EARN the right to that particular look through the wearing and using of your jeans!
Love that!
I’m a topiary mom aspirant 😜 Love some raw edge, a strategically placed rip etc. Keep doing you, hair tie bracelets included!
I Like the style of holes in the jeans they look good on anyone . Does't matter how old you are . .
I got my bookmark the other day. How did I know your handwriting would be elegant as well. 🥰
I started some rosemary topiaries last fall because of your blogs. Can't wait for them to grow more this spring. Love wearing jeans, but I do not wear the ones with tears ( age 66)! Love your channel!
I just started! I’m making three topiary to add height to big planters outside and I will underplant them with flowers until they get bigger. Thanks!
Do we do topiary!! How can we not, if we watch your videos? Yours are so beautiful and you explain how to create so that we are all inspired to run out to our nearest plant sellers and buy them. I confess to having a boxwood addiction, but I think that Lemon Cypress is a beginner's dream. I think they are the easiest to do - lollipop, high cone shape, or spiral, or even double topiary. If I can do it anyone can!! Thanks Linda!💚🌳
Hi from Australia🦘
I haven’t watched you for a long time so I am thrilled to be back as one of your loyal viewers now.
You have class and your topiary ideas definitely appeal to my creative side. Thank you Linda. You are indeed a star 💫
Thanks for the encouragement: I’ll try my hand at a wreath topiary using an unconventional vine-maybe a clerodendrum varietal. I don’t mind jeans with small holes, but am not fond of those with large holes or large cut-outs. Jeans are for all people of all ages. 🙂
I started topiary after being hooked on your blogs. I love all of yours, looks perfect with your English Tudor home. I have a big boulevard juniper in the ground that is my big topiary, I also have a san jose bonsai planted in the ground. I have some small boxwood that I bought and cut to trim in a topiary form. I also have a white pine that i am training. I plan to look at getting more this Spring, I love them......
Starting this year with topiaries inspired by your channel. No age limit on torn jeans however, ripped jeans in the right places on your body is a must.
I can never find good belts anymore. Used to find really cool ones at TJMaxx. Love the look & adore the flower hair band bracelet!!!
Yes. Love topiaries and have been working on them since I found you last April on Utube. The boxwood and lemon cypress are my favorites. I have a good many topiaries from garden volunteers…cedar and holly. Love your bracelets and think everyone should wear what they love frayed jeans and all. Looking forward to your book.
No I don’t due toparir ,sp, but your. teaching is such a great example.You are the best! Love you for getting us going again!
I absolutely LOVE distressed jeans! I think the key in Fashion is, if you love it and it makes you happy, wear it, it doesn't matter your age❤
I am so interested in trying my hand at topiaries! This was so good because I have been a bit "sheepish" about my ability to do them. I think I will start by going back and watching, from the links you have put, the how-to start and create a topiary. I love ivy and really love the way they look in a topiary...they are just so "classy" to me. Again, after we move, I have many ideas on how I would like to try my hand at ALL sorts of things! Your book will also be of GREAT HELP and I am excited to read every page!! As always, thanks for a wonderful watch!!
Style is how YOU feel, Linda, I love that you wear what you feel, Iam 59 and I love jeans with tears in them I also have an 18 year old granddaughter that Iam very mindful of but she always says Nana I love your style!
Ciao from Italy, i'm interested in Topiary, just stoped this video, running out to get 1laurel plant that gave to me a friend, had it almost 1 year didn't know what to do with it, trimmed it so now it will be my first try🥰, must to change to beautiful pot, i have another laurel growing love the smell of it, ciao.😘
Linda, you have inspired me and I was at the garden shop today looking for plants I can make into topiaries & to use the egg shaped trellises I bought from your line. As far as the ripped jeans, I do not look good in them and the only ones I have I wear when I do my garden work. You, however, could wear a burlap sack and you would look great!! Can't wait for the book I pre-ordered!!
... you have made me fall in LOVE with topiary... It wasn't my style at all but I am beginning to incorporate it in my farmhouse-style backyard. My home is a two-storey brick colonial, laid in Flemish Bond. It's the same vintage as your Tudor, and because the backyard is totally private, my style out back is actually farm style. (I keep things classic out front.) I have a lot of wash tubs; a windmill; and a galvanized stock tank that I use as my pond/water feature, along with my borders and beds where I garden for wildlife and pollinators. (I'm certified several times for wildlife, birds, and butterflies.) When you step through the back gate you enter the country, and folks are always amazed, as it is unseen from the street. I've purchased all of your products (and I'm still waiting for those pineapple finials to return; forgive me for hav8ng to hear about this again! 🙃 My mode of decorating is colonial style inside, and as you know, pineapples are symbols of "welcome".) Regarding ripped jeans, I feel as long as one can rock it, age is no limit. (...and I wish I was built like you, with straight hips!) 🤣🤷🏼♀️💟👩🏼🌾💚 =^..^=
I love the outfit of the day and the hair band idea for a bracelet! Very cute! I also love the textural element of ripped denim. I don’t personally like the ones that are super cut open down he front and obviously contrived. But I do like the ones that look more naturally and authentically worn through. LOL! At 61 I wear what I like and I make no apologies for that. I tend toward a bohemian slant and love to put together cute, practical outfits that express some creativity. Linda, you are my role model in that!❤️🤩. I want to check out that greenhouse in Kalamazoo that you mentioned, since I am a Michigander as well. The topiaries are so gorgeous and it has been many years since I have done one. Time to fix that! Thanks so much for all you teach us. You and Stewart are my fave.🥰
Linda, thanks to you I just might try my hand at topiary! On another note I just have to say that I LOVE the floor lamp in your video right behind you. It looks like it's made from wood? Where did you get that? Please share! Thanks! Ayron
Oops! I didn't realize I could give you a thumbs up! OK! Thumbs up!
Love your vlogs and very much look forward to them!! Feel as though I’m visiting with a close friend which is very comforting to me especially during these times of Covid. I’ve never done a topiary before but after watching your garden tours and today’s video I’m inspired to create one this spring.
Regarding your question, definitely not a fan of torn britches for anyone at any age. As much as clothing cost nowadays I don’t need to be paying for clothing that purposefully looks used and abused. I’ve always tried to take good care of my clothes and think of the “used torn look” as a passing fad. No disrespect to your outfit (you always look awesome) or anyone who chooses to wear clothing with tears & holes, I just don’t understand why they would want to. Guess I’m just showing my old age. :-)
Linda your videos have so inspired me from the thrifting, paint colors in your house, gardening tools, and topiaries. I have been wanting to try my hand at topiaries and will get started as soon as I see the boxwoods, yews and conifers arrive at the stores in the Kansas City area. I'm in 5b-6a growing zone, and will I need to bring the topiaries in for the winter?
I was growing a lemon tree and formed it into a topiary shape I plan on doing my two small boxwoods. I have 4 of your egg obelisks 2 black and 2 galvanized.. love love them. You gave me some good Ideas for them. I personally love the lollipop form❣Thank you for turning me on to them🌱 just saw on Amazon skinny belts what an assortment😁
I only have one topiary which is a boxwood that I bought already in its form. Now that spring is upon us, I want to buy some rosemary plants, which do really well here, and start some topiaries with them. I also have a really large elephant bush that I need to prune, and the clippings can be used to start new plants, I would love to have miniature trees from them. Lots of people do bonsai, but I have seen some in a more rounded form with a thick stem, so I’m trying for that.
I really wants to try topiary, yours looks really healthy.you inspire me.
You are a delight. Love your style! Stay you.
There should NOT be an age cut off for anything. That is my opinion, but from time to time I feel like other people have opinions of what to wear at a certain age. I like those types of jeans too! You always look chic and are such a lady in what ever you wear. So I look at you and you are my rolemodel of what to wear 💚
I love wire vine/plant. So delicate. Thank you for all of the useful information. Always. Those pants fit you perfectly! Hot!
I pre-ordered your book from Amazon. So I am waiting patiently for it’s arrival. You have inspired me to do a topiary. I will be trying this in the spring.
I brought a rosemary topiary inside for the winter and it quickly started dropping leaves, dried up, I could not figure out what I was doing wrong, and I gave up and put it outside and of course it didn't make it through the ice storms. Now I know that it probably wouldn't have made it inside my house regardless. I keep my heat way up, I despise being cold, and the poor thing just needed more water I guess. I will try again though, cause Linda has shown us how, explained everything so well that I know I can do this. Here's the thing: once you have one topiary that you create and nourish and tend to - it creates the need for more. And more ! And you know what, if I'm going to hoard something, I think it's okay to hoard topiary for my gardening/therapy sessions. It's all relative. If you have a big yard or big garden space, you can space your plans out and it won't look like a hoard. But if they are all bunched together, it looks.... well.... like hoarding. It doesn't look organized or well thought out. So I'm going to set up vignettes like my yard like Linda has done, and place big pots with topiary of some type.
After struggling this winter to bring inside the 5 Eugenia topiaries that I adore, I've decided to stick with the topiaries that can stay outside during the winter. (The only exceptions will be my hibiscus standards and a few miscellaneous tabletops.) I love boxwoods, of course, but I really love my oleander standards, my rose standards, the bay tree standards, and gardenia standards. I can keep all of these outside in my 8A NC coastal zone, and they are all evergreens except for the roses. (Even these stay green and bloom up until December.) My oleander standards started blooming in spring and did not stop until late fall! Thank you, Linda, for turning me on to topiaries exactly 2 years ago! I have learned so much from you. I have pre-ordered your book.
OK. Fellow gardeners! I will work up the nerves to try a topiary. I think I will get one at the garden center if spring comes to Vermont and see if I can keep it shaped correctly!😂
I have never had a topiary, but I enjoy your videos on topiaries just to see your enthusiasm for them. I do not like any torn jeans on anyone of any age. It is a style that can leave anytime! Hahaha!
I have not done topiary yet ! But you are inspiring me
I wear ripped jeans occasionally. They make me feel young for some crazy reason. I’m 72 years young and I guess I’m a hippie at heart. Linda keep wearing them you really know how to put a look together.
I have never worn torn clothing of any kind. Actually, my mother never liked me to wear blue jeans at all. Do what you like everyone.
I just started following your channel a couple of months ago and I love it! I was in Lowe’s today and and bought two box woods on the discounted section. I’m thinking of starting to try topiaries. By the way I live in the gulf coast area of south Alabama.
Welcome!
Can you teach us how to do cloud pruning? I have made some starts on topiary with my sunshine Ligustrum but I love the cloud pruning look. But it’s so intimidating!! Love your videos!! ❤️
Hi I am Sankalita from India
Thankyou so much for giving me such great ideas. I am definitely going to use these ideas for my plants
I bought my first sweet Myrtle topiary at a local garden center at Christmas time. I pretty much killed it :(. I replanted it anyway, and happy to say I have new growth starting. Will pick up some Start fertilizer to give it.
I have been having a hard time finding a lemon cypress.
This spring I will check out Passiflora it is 3 miles from my home. Looks like the store carries wonderful items from pictures I seen posted during shop small Saturday.
Hey Linda, how are you? I am 60+ and have on ripped jeans currently. I've gotten tons of compliments on them and they are one of my most comfortable and favorite pair. Thanks for asking!
I love ripped up jeans and you are not too old to wear them. I love your style!
I do topiary and you have inspired me to do them... Myrtles, boxwood, eugenia. I like the trimming aspect. No ripped jeans for me, since my hubby doesn't think it looks nice. I do wear them, though, when I garden...
I love topiaries because of you, Miss Linda!
They are so fun to shape. I like using Dwarf spruce. I look for really bad ones on the bottom where you would cut off anyway and then get them for much reduced prices. I guess I'm cheap! Plus these dwarf spruces don't have to come inside in the winter in central IL, 5B.
I have boxwood ones, too.
Love that bracelet that are hair ties. Clever and cute! will have to look at Walmart. Whatever you wear, you look so put together.
You just always look good.
Thank you for introducing topiaries to me!
I do not have any topiary but have always wanted some one day soon. I will be 70 in April and I do not have any torn jeans but they look great on you.
Would love to see how you combine several small topiaries into one larger one. Love the hair tie bracelets!! You rock everything you wear, rips or no rips. I am 65 and usually do not wear rips in jeans, not to say I, wouldn't or don't like them, just havent purchased them. I haven't worn out a pair of jeans since the 1980's when I was crawling around on the floor with my children!! Have come close with crawling with the grands, but no break throughs. Haha.
No age limit for me. I love distressed jeans. They add a bit of edge to my outfits. 💕
Love all your versions of topiary! As for the ripped jeans; it really depends on the person wearing them. I think you wear them well. You are very casually stylish and youthful physically and spiritually. I on the other hand at 62 would look like I am trying too hard to look young and competing with my daughters in their 20's. My trendy version of jeans is just cutting them off at the ankles and letting them fray.