Topiary or Butchery?

I don't know what you think... but I am not that keen on quite so many in ONE garden!

Not this patch though...This is only the 'nursery' bed until the landscapers get around to them.
How much do you think the spiral one cost??? :eek:

 

I like them, but not too many, even in a nursery unit. I spose the spiral is about �£1500.00. There's a garden centre not too far from me, that sells all shapes of topiary, but mainly of life size animals. A bull of box with ring in its nose and full wedding tackle was priced at �£3000. The pigs were lovely and the merry go round horses were sweet, but the panther was very sinewy and very clever. So go on how much?

 

Well for a start..this lot are going in just the one plot!...a certain plot just off the M40 North of the M25 and a 'Mr Getty' is footing the bill. And the spiral one has cost him...�£5000!!
I reckon the bloke must be loaded.. :rolleyes: :D

 

More money than sense!

I don't much like them, have to say - I prefer to do my own, as the main thing about topiary is the "fun" in doing it!

We made a peacock, a cat and a squirrel, but Mr D was a bit put out that I could never remember which one was the cat, and which the squirrel, when I was clipping them, and I kept on cutting off the nuts :eek: so we turned them into more geometric shapes instead! :D

 

I like it (but not at those prices :D )

Once you get a few trees in there and some under plantings it should look pretty nice.

 

The chap over the road from me has a attempted to do the Lochness Monster!!!!

It's horrendous and for ages I couldn't make out what it was supposed to be...

When he goes out I will attempt to take a photo :D

I do like the spiral one though Nick wish I could afford it.

 

That sounds a great idea, Stingo - nobody can prove it isn't like Nessie, can they? :D

 

True :D

 

Hello Stingo,
Could you tell me the name of the flowers on your avater? We have some in our front garden and they are in full bloom about now. They are like a pom pom!

 

I assume they are primula denticulata, JB

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B2GGGL_enGB205GB205&q=primula%20denticulata&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

and if you want to grow more of them!

http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/us/en/product/3102/1

 

Like I always say thank god there are people like that so there can be people like me.

 

Hi JohnBinks

Mine are Alliums from the onion family which arn't in flower yet, possibly May/June.

Think I planted them as bulbs years ago and they just keep coming back every year, they are about 2ft high and quite majestic; not sure of the exact name of them though sorry.

Can you post a pic of yours?

 

Looks like something out of 'Alice in Wonderland'. If he has a nice big garden they won't look so bizarre, might look really nice.
On a slightly different note I personally think they haven't been well pruned. I know age gives character to topiary but these things are SO irregular, and not tightly clipped (thus not so very old either) one wonders what is being paid for - not the clipping, nor the age. �£5k! Some nurseryman must be laughing right now.

 

I think the owner of the garden ..'Getty'..might give the game away as to why such high prices are being charged!!

[ 22. April 2007, 12:15 PM: Message edited by: Paladin ]

 

i think they look good and i imagine theyll really come good when underplanted etc.guess the italians are in town palustris ?