{"id":907,"date":"2018-01-19T15:33:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyrignac.com\/discover-eyrignac\/lart-topiaire\/"},"modified":"2018-04-08T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T15:43:01","slug":"eyrignac-topiary-art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eyrignac.com\/en\/discover-eyrignac\/eyrignac-topiary-art","title":{"rendered":"Topiary Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eyrignac Gardens, an open-air museum to the art of topiary<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1521045667057{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]The art of topiary is a skill perculiar to the gardener, who, armed with shears and patience, gives shape to the plant.\u00a0 In Eyrignac, the art of topiary has found a place where there are no limits to its forms of expression.\u00a0 Spheres, pyramids, cones, straight hedges, green rooms, patterns of boxwood, animals and many other motifs punctuate the visit to please the eye and fuel the imagination. The gardens at Eyrignac are an open-air museum where the creations of Nature by craftsmen are exhibited.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Topiary is one of the oldest aspects of gardening<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html css=”.vc_custom_1515593443476{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}”]JTNDZGl2JTIwY2xhc3MlM0QlMjJzZXAlMjIlM0UlM0MlMkZkaXYlM0U=[\/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]Sculpting plants is a practice recognised since antiquity and has been used in all styles of gardens, whether medieval, Italian, French, English or contemporary. “Topiarius” was the title given by Pliny the Younger to the gardener in charge of the embellishment of the Ornamental Garden.\u00a0 “Ars Topiaria” or \u2018Topiary Art\u2019 is the skill of selecting plants that lend themselves to geometric forms or free forms in three dimensions. Techniques differ, depending on the plants in question.\u00a0 Shrubs such as yew, box and cypress, or trees like elms and hornbeam are trimmed with shears, using string, plumb lines and stencils. \u00a0Climbers such as ivy, for example, are trained either on trellises to cover a wall or on structures formed to represent an object or an animal.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1516206925030{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1516958232164{padding-right: 20px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”1555″ img_size=”large” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text el_class=”nomt nopb”]<\/p>\n

Eyrignac and its gardens of 300 topiaries<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html css=”.vc_custom_1515593443476{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}”]JTNDZGl2JTIwY2xhc3MlM0QlMjJzZXAlMjIlM0UlM0MlMkZkaXYlM0U=[\/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]With no less than 300 topiaries at Eyrignac, the art of topiary takes pride of place. The range of motifs are infinite thanks to combinations of the basic geometric shapes\u00a0: sphere, cube, cone, pyramid, and spiral, allowing the gardener to achieve decorative elements of any size\u00a0; in fact actual green structures. The examples of topiary at Eyrignac are identified as sempervirens <\/em>(always green) and therefore provide year round interest.\u00a0 Visitors can appreciate the skill of the gardeners when they pass the evenly clipped hedges lining the path to the Pagoda\u00a0; in the topiary garden and in the parterres of the French-style garden.\u00a0 The skills of the gardener are also evident in the plant-covered wall by the fish pond and in the star-shaped green specimens surrounding the water features in the Rose Garden.<\/p>\n

In the flower meadow, the gardeners have allowed their imagination to create the illusion of a charming \u2018green\u2019 farmyard.<\/p>\n

Everything in the gardens at Eyrignac evokes the tradition of the French-style garden which is based on a subtle balance between precision, harmony and spectacle. The art of topiary, as it is practiced in Eyrignac, is the perfect fusion of these three principles.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1516206931934{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1516958238093{padding-right: 20px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”1544″ img_size=”large” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text el_class=”nomt nopb”]<\/p>\n

Do you have the necessary know-how for topiary?<\/h2>\n

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