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topiary

[toh-pee-er-ee] / ˈtoʊ piˌɛr i /




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The piece will run about seven hours from sundown to sunrise, 365 days a year, just across the street from Jeff Koons’ monumental topiary sculpture “Split-Rocker.”

From Los Angeles Times May 27, 2026

Mapperton, near Beaminster, is an Italianate fantasy in a steep coombe studded with topiary and sky-reflecting pools.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 11, 2026

Jeff Koons stood atop a construction lift and planted a small, silvery gray dudleya succulent on the nose of his monumental topiary sculpture “Split-Rocker” at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 24, 2025

This is how the popular topiary artist, whose longtime clients include Martha Stewart, rolls these days in his high-top white Nissan.

From Seattle Times May 1, 2024

Grover stood in the middle, facing three really old, really fat satyrs who sat on topiary thrones shaped out of rose bushes.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

Many trees, shrubs, sub-shrubs and even vines can become topiaries, he has discovered, but some are easier, better or faster.

From Seattle Times May 1, 2024

The topiaries, scorched from the onslaught, had to be replaced almost every year.

From Slate Oct. 7, 2023

Or add topiaries on each side of your door, Nayak says.

From Washington Post Dec. 6, 2021

While the parks are closed, teams are still maintaining the topiaries, many of which are trimmed to look like various Disney characters.

From Fox News Apr. 23, 2020

Shrubs that had been tidy topiaries had grown into great shaggy trees, and bowers of blooming vines had overspilled their neat beds to riot up the walls and columns and drape over the railing.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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