{"id":547182,"date":"2010-04-29T15:17:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T19:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dirt.asla.org\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2010-04-29T15:17:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T19:17:52","slug":"global-topiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547182","title":{"rendered":"Global Topiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aslathedirt.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/rabbit_topiary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4458\" title=\"rabbit_topiary\" src=\"http:\/\/aslathedirt.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/rabbit_topiary.jpg?w=300&#038;h=274\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The Telegragh (UK)<\/em> created a slideshow of topiary around the world,\u00a0showing examples of\u00a0\u00a0literary, religious,\u00a0geometric, spiral, animal, and other fantastic\u00a0designs from France, UK, Germany, Italy, and (as seen above), Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Topiary relates to the\u00a0art of\u00a0clipping trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs to create sculptures. According to Wikipedia, the word derives from the Latin word for an &#8220;ornamental landscape gardener, topiarius, creator of topia or &#8216;places&#8217;.&#8221; In\u00a0many cases, trees are sculpted with shears, taking shape over time. In others, wire cages are used to guide plants into sculpture.\u00a0A range of plants\u00a0and vines\u00a0can be\u00a0incorporated.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia says the first topiaries were Roman. &#8220;Pliny&#8217;s Natural History and the epigram-writer Martial both credit Cneius Matius Calvena, in the circle of Julius Caesar, with introducing the first topiary to Roman gardens, and Pliny the Younger describes in a letter the elaborate figures of animals, inscriptions and cyphers and obelisks in clipped greens at his Tuscan villa. Within the atrium of a Roman house or villa, a place that had formerly been quite plain, the art of the topiarius produced a miniature landscape (topos) which might use the comparable art of stunting trees, also mentioned, disapprovingly, by Pliny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/expat\/expatpicturegalleries\/7571602\/Topiary-for-the-ages.html\" >See the slideshow<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Topiary\" >more topiaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/aslathedirt.wordpress.com\/4457\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/aslathedirt.wordpress.com\/4457\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/aslathedirt.wordpress.com\/4457\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/aslathedirt.wordpress.com\/4457\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/aslathedirt.wordpress.com\/4457\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/aslathedirt.wordpress.com\/4457\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/aslathedirt.wordpress.com\/4457\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/aslathedirt.wordpress.com\/4457\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/aslathedirt.wordpress.com\/4457\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/aslathedirt.wordpress.com\/4457\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=dirt.asla.org&#038;blog=5819422&#038;post=4457&#038;subd=aslathedirt&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegragh (UK) created a slideshow of topiary around the world,\u00a0showing examples of\u00a0\u00a0literary, religious,\u00a0geometric, spiral, animal, and other fantastic\u00a0designs from France, UK, Germany, Italy, and (as seen above), Thailand. Topiary relates to the\u00a0art of\u00a0clipping trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs to create sculptures. According to Wikipedia, the word derives from the Latin word for an &#8220;ornamental landscape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}