Part of the Craft Skills for Garden Conservation, an Erasmus+ funded project.
Webinar programme
Hedges and topiary are important structural and decorative elements of most historic gardens. The creation, maintenance and restoration of these elements require significant skills. Today these gardens are mostly maintained with contemporary power tools, but this webinar presents the historical gardening practice as well as contemporary solutions; the function and aesthetics of hedges and topiary in historic gardens as well as their creation and reconstruction.
Glossary of terms
We also discuss questions about plant choices then and now and traditional versus modern technology for maintaining hedges and topiary. In summary, the webinar considers hedges and topiary from the perspective of cultural heritage, sustainability and biodiversity as well as the effects of climate change.