If you were lucky over the holidays, you may have received a gorgeous green topiary as a house gift (less lucky if it came shaped like a monkey). But if you want your “Rudolph the Ivy-Nosed Reindeer” ...

Dear Carol: I happened to find in the woods near my house the upper body and head of a Styrofoam deer, the kind used for target practice. It is large and while it has some holes in it still has its ...

Even if you don’t have a back yard, you can share in the joy of spring gardening. Let’s start with what you already might have growing indoors. Is there an ivy plant that has been sending off new, ...

Ivy is one of the easiest plants to grow–indoors or out. And an ivy-covered topiary works as well on the dining-room sideboard as it does on the patio. Rebekah Cline of Rebekah’s Garden at the State ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Santiago Padilla waters the "mama swan" topiary at the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens in Las Vegas recently. The display depicts Monet's famous 1900 painting, ``The Water Lily Pond." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Topiary is a form of pruning wherein a shrub or small tree is trimmed and trained into an interesting, elegant, or whimsical shape ...

For a second look, Algerian ivy grows on a round wire form for a topiary placed on the stairs leading to the enclosed porch. Elsewhere in the house, an elephant-shaped topiary greets visitors to the ...

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