“The aim of the art is not only to represent the outward appearance of things, but also their inward significance”. -Aristotle.
How beautifully this quote of the great Greek philosopher and artist Aristotle matches to the alluring art of Topiary.
Topiary and its History?
By definition, Topiary is an art of designing, decorating, cutting, grooming, and maintaining the living plants, shrubs and trees into artificial, decorative shapes. The art of topiary is said to have been invented by a friend of the ancient Roman emperor Augustus and is known to have been practiced since the 1st century CE.
Topiary Today
Today, the world famous gardens like Levens Hall in England, the Marqueyssac in France, Drummond Castle Gardens in Scotland and Green Animals Topiary Garden in Rhode Island, USA are the living testimonies of the magical art of the Topiary. People from around the world travel to have a glance of these beauties.
Topiary has now traveled and reached every corner of the world. Experiencing these hypnotically serene and magically beautiful art pieces is now possible just a step away- in your front or backyard. In fact, with the help of ‘Luxurious Landscape’ you can indeed develop your very own topiary garden in your own backyard and working spaces.
Topiary and Humans
Human beings have deep rooted personal emotional connection with nature and especially to plant life. Despite that, when it comes to the idea of landscaping, most people limit their imagination by opting for the basic practice of planting ornamental plants, trees and shrubs without considering the personal expression of an individual of that particular space.
Under the impression of ‘landscape designing’, focus is generally given on the idea of making the space ‘green’ which is nowhere completely wrong; but taking into consideration the emotional and psychological needs of an individual who will interact with that landscape is parallelly important.
Well, this is where the famous art of topiary comes as a breath of fresh air and creativity in the world of landscape designing. With the help of topiary, a skilled landscape designer can literally put life inside the shapeless and formless plant, tree and shrub!
What does topiary offer?
There can be a long list of answers to this question. Here are a few of them-
- Topiary gives a unique opportunity for individuals to interact with the landscape.
- Central idea of the topiary revolves around developing the unique landscape experiences for each individual.
- Topiary definitely breaks the over recurring ‘monotony’ of the landscape designs and gives ‘fresh perspective’ and exclusive ‘palatial aesthetic value’ to the not only personal living spaces but also the professional public places.
- From abstract geometrical designs to real life and larger than life objects, figures of animals and humans, topiary can help develop all those shapes and objects through creative and skilled work of landscaping.
- Topiary positively helps every individual to find their own ‘personalized self-expression’ through landscape designing.
- Topiary can help the clients to unleash their fantasy landscapes into reality.
Truly, when it comes to premium quality, personalized luxurious landscape development, art of topiary is limitless and knows no bounds!