It’s the season when rich evergreens take a giant step forward, whether it’s structural box or yew, or a choice evergreen ...

or Pyramidalis yew for an obelisk, as examples. Evergreens generally are used for topiary, but occasionally a deciduous plant such as English hawthorn or European beech is used. A drawback to a ...

typically boxwood or yew, can be shaped year after year as it grows. The topiarist will use sharp long-handled or electric clippers, or, for the specialist, lethal Japanese shears. For topiary ...

PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY A vast, ancient forest dominated by endangered Northeast yew trees, also known as Japanese yew, has been discovered in Jilin province, scientists announced. Some trees in ...

Perhaps it was a hint, an inkling of my future. Yet I never imagined that my grown-up self would board the Eurostar every autumn and speed out of high-octane London to Antwerp in search of ...

The daughter of a much-loved villager known for his quirky topiary said he would be thrilled people were "still talking about his work and raising smiles" four years after his death. Among the ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a ...

10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

By Li Yuan A Japanese boy was stabbed on his way to school in China on Sept. 18. That’s the date when, nearly a century earlier in 1931, Japan invaded China. The child, who was 10 years old ...

Both the bear and and topiary bird I grew myself. The bear, grown from a conical yew took about 10 years to complete, the bird, seen between the scarecrows was grown from an upright yew and took ...

The Straits Times understands that national singles coach Kelvin Ho, who has played a key role in the rise of badminton stars Loh Kean Yew and Yeo Jia Min, will take over from Taufiq Hidayat as ...

I’ve been obsessed with topiary since a family holiday in the 1980s. Packed tightly into a VW Golf, we headed to the English Lake District where a wide-eyed child emerged into the wonderland of ...