The Complete Book of Topiary

by Deborah Reich and Barbara Gallup

Presenting all the methods of formal plant shaping and introducing simple, fun, and fanciful techniques for creating informal indoor topiaries, "Totally Topiary" is clear, comprehensive, and written... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894803182
• ISBN13: 9780894803185
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Thoroughly Enjoyable!

I found this book to be absolutely delightful, insightful, and a keeper. A real treasure of information and inspiration!

More than just a dry, step-one-step-two, how-to book.

Featuring interesting historical information, this book includes many backgrounds of formal gardens and topiary, offered as sidebars and archive drawings. There is extensive information on creating forms and shaping topiary. The illustrator's drawings echo the whimical sentiment of topiary, while the authors' offering of botanical information help the hobbyist understand the science of what they are doing. I cannot imagine anyone reading this book and not bursting with ideas to make their own gardens come to life.