Topiary Trees For Sale
Buy the best topiary trees for sale selected and recommended by interior designers. By Tara Gosselin.
Your yard or garden will be the talk of the neighborhood when you install a few of these lovely topiary trees we have for sale. In many styles and designs, along with an array of heights, you are going to love looking out your front-room window and seeing your collection of topiary trees being admired by everyone who passes by. Especially when the stop to admire them.
Topiary Trees For Sale
Buying Guide
Tara Gosselin
Interior Design Expert
Tara is a San Antonio-based award-winning landscape architect, writer and educator, passionate about eco-friendly solutions and growing her own food. She knows all it takes to help you create a sustainable backyard retreat that combines blissful charm with a modern take on landscaping.
You can buy topiary trees already trimmed into a shape, or you can purchase the tree types that make good topiary. Either way, there are some basic care tips that will keep your topiary in good shape.
- Repot your topiary as soon as possible. Most of the pots in which they are sold are too small to maintain good root growth, which your topiary plant will need to sustain good health and support its shape.
- Feed your plant, especially if it is growing in a pot. Remember, potted plants don’t have the freedom to search for added nutrients outside their original growing area. Foliar or slow release plant foods work well.
- Water often, even if the plant is outdoors and has the benefit of rain. Topiary shapes can change the way water is absorbed, especially if the plant is in a pot.
- Trim in early to mid-summer when the plant has the best chance to recover from pruning. Most will only require pruning once or twice a season.
If you are just starting out with topiary, a tree that is already trimmed in a classic shape, such as the spiral or a double ball can be a quick and easy way to get going. You can learn about taking care of your topiary, maintenance pruning, and how to observe your plant with one that is already started. A boxwood cone and spiral are two easy to maintain shapes, and boxwood is a hearty, easy-care plant.
An easy way to create a topiary is to purchase or make a wire frame in the shape you desire. This works especially well with small plants, such as woody herbs that can be treelike without achieving the stature of a full sizes shrub. Select potted plants that are approximately the right size for your mini-topiary. Place them in an appropriately sized bedding tray, and settle the wire frame over them. Encourage the leaves to poke through the meshes of the wire. As the plants grow, gently trim them so that the wire shape emerges in green foliage.
One of the easiest plants to grow for outdoor topiary is ligustrum delavayanumthe, or box-leafed privet. Just a word of warning: this stuff is so hearty that in some climates it can become invasive, so plant and prune responsibly. It holds up well under frequent pruning, happily putting out new growth at the drop of a rain shower. It puts on flowers in late summer and then berries that the birds love. To encourage it to bloom, give it its pruning in early spring before new growth begins. Yew, taxus baccata, and boxwood Buxus sempervirens, are also good plants for topiary. Yew tends to grow more slowly than privet or boxwood, so be prepared to wait a while on it. Meanwhile, keep its feet reasonably dry. Yew trees dislike swampy conditions.