Definition:
The topiary art is a gardening practice that consist
on giving artistic forms to the plants by cutting with pruning scissors. We
have nearly infinites options to give particular forms to plants.
The artistic pruning
is as old as our civilization and goes back in time to the Romans’ time. The
name comes from the Latin word topiaries “gardener-ornamental landscape” creator of
topia or “places”; a Greek word that
the Romans applied too to interior sceneries painted at fresco.
Its
origin is in roman gardening where roman villas owners used to walk through
their gardens surrounded by sculpted figures in shrubs, and continued during
the Italian Renaissance. In the XV century, Italy became the birthplace of the
European Renaissance. His artists looked toward the past and inspire on the
classic culture to develop their creations. The gardeners were not ignorant
about this trend and, the tidy gardens with corridors and very pronounced
figures, majestic arches and geometric volumes as never seen before, became
fashionable again.
