Pleasant Place 6: Topiary traces the ancient, obsessive practice of clipping and sculpting living plants into form — asking what our unrelenting desire to impose geometry on the natural world actually reveals about us. (32pp)
About This Book
The sixth instalment in the Pleasant Place series turns its attention to topiary: the art of trimming and pruning trees and shrubs into fanciful, often fantastical shapes. More than a practical guide to the technique, this compact publication sits with the deeper question of why we do it at all. What drives the garden designer — and the weekend gardener alike — to shear the living into the sculptural? Sitting at the intersection of garden design, horticultural practice, and cultural inquiry, this booklet is characteristically Pleasant Place in its ambition: deceptively small in format, genuinely substantive in content.
Key Features
- 32 pages of illustrated editorial content on the history and practice of topiary
- Published by Pleasant Place, ISBN: 9789083284354
What You'll Discover
- The cultural and psychological impulse behind humanity's desire to sculpt living plants into controlled, geometric form
- The practical art of trimming and pruning trees and shrubs into fanciful shapes, situated within garden design tradition
- How topiary sits within the broader Pleasant Place inquiry into everyday garden tasks and considered landscape thinking
- A meditation on the tension between the natural world and our instinct to impose order upon it
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 32
- Dimensions: 180 x 245 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789083284354
- Publisher: Pleasant Place
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Landscape architects, garden designers, and anyone drawn to the cultural history of horticulture and the aesthetics of the designed landscape.