Ivy Topiary

Hedera

Hedera, commonly called ivy, is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to Western Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan. Several species are cultivated as climbing ornamentals, and the name ivy especially denotes common ivy, known in North America as "English ivy", which is frequently planted to clothe brick walls.

Topiary

Topiary is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful. The term also refers to plants which have been shaped in this way. As an art form it is a type of living sculpture. The word derives from the Latin word for an ornamental landscape gardener, topiarius, a creator of topia or "places", a Greek word that Romans also applied to fictive indoor landscapes executed in fresco.

ivy

Noun

1. Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.
2. Any similar plant of any genus.

topiary

Adjective

1. Of, or relating to art of topiaries.
2. Of a tree or shrub, trimmed in artistic shape.

Noun

1. Art or practice of trimming shrubs or trees in artistic or ornamental shapes, e.g. of animals.
2. A garden decorated with such art.