Tim’s back and creating more fantastic topiary in our area.
At the beginning of the year on a bright winter’s day, Tim started transforming a neighbour’s troublesome and massively overgrown hedge into a thing of beauty. Troublesome, because it was such a solid and enormous mass, that people were doing bad things under cover of the dense privet.
On first sighting, Tim’s thoughts flew to an elephant herd, and no sooner thought of than done!
Tim is a fast worker, even with a spot of tennis elbow,
and with ‘team elephant’ behind him, managed the first cut in a few 2 hour sessions.
Six months later and after its second cut, the herd is looking amazing. There are still a few areas that need to fill out, but we’re all mighty impressed with Tim’s achievement. Both ‘London in Bloom’ and ‘It’s your neighbourhood’ judges who recently visited our area were bowled over by this amazing transformation and if you stand to look and stare for a few moments, you will soon get into conversations with other passers-by who are similarly wowed by this wonderful herd.
The residents are delighted to have reclaimed their front garden and the rest of the neighbourhood benefits from this fantastic piece of public art.
Tim Bushe’s previous topiary sculptures can be seen just up the road in Highbury and Tim can be contacted on Twitter @HedgecutterMan or at tim@walkerbushe.co.uk if you’d like him to create other works of art in your area, with all proceeds going to his sister’s charity, the HFT Trust. If you’d like to make a donation, go to Tim’s page on Just Giving.
What an outstanding transformation. I found myself smiling with delight and imagine that’s the response from all who see them. So glad you published the before pix too.
Hi Sue,. Yes Outstanding is a good word to describe what Tim has created. Lucky to have him in our neighbourhood!
Naomi, that’s just amazing. I’ve just acquired 3 box plants today but they’re so small no chance of creating anything so clever, even if I was any good with my shears. I’ll be chuffed if they end up looking like balls. Tim is a very talented man. Seeing those every day would make me smile.
Hi WW, start practicing on your box balls now, who knows what you’ll be trimming in a few years time! You’re right, Elephants continue to wow every time I pass by.
Wow! It looks fantastic… there’s a house near me with a giant topiary teapot in the front garden (sounds awful but it’s a really whimsical conversation starter!).
HI PJ Girl, Tim got involved as part if our community veg growing scheme, and one of our aims is to get neighbours chatting to one another. You’re right, topiary really is a conversation starter. Tim himself says he got to know his own neighbours only after creating the topiary where he lives as it was such a talking point.
What an amazing artist! Thanks for sharing the before and afters. I wish I had a topiary artist in my neighborhood!
This is the first piece of topiary that I have found truly inspiring, having merely admired some cloud pruning before. Awesome, I would consider traveling to see this as a work of art!
Absolutely amazing. I should try and talk some of my clients into doing this!
Those really cheered me up on (yet another) grey, rainy, depressing day. They are wonderful – must make everyone smile!
Hi WMG,Nigel, Anna and Kate-Will pass on your appreciation of the elephants to Tim!
Anna-have one client who has started using Tim to create some topiary in their front garden and is very happy with the result.
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JUST… WONDERFUL… What an amazing job… I hope to be good like Tim one day… but I don’t think so… I’m not that good at cutting… 😦
Practice makes perfect!!