Very little has been published on the history of topiary. For more than a century, the only book on the subject was The Book of Topiary by Charles H. Curtis and W. Gibson, published in 1904. In his introduction, Curtis noted that “so far as the writer is aware, no attempt has hitherto been made to place such a history before the gardening public.”
In 2010, Twigs Way wrote a slim volume titled Topiary for the Shire Library series which, like The Book of Topiary, focused largely on British examples. (Way notes that The Book of Topiary “unexpectedly sparked a revival” in the art.) This year, the Dutch magazine Pleasant Place devoted an issue (no. 6) to the subject of topiary, including an essay on topiarian history by Norbert Peeters.
In 2010, Twigs Way wrote a slim volume titled Topiary for the Shire Library series which, like The Book of Topiary, focused largely on British examples. (Way notes that The Book of Topiary “unexpectedly sparked a revival” in the art.) This year, the Dutch magazine Pleasant Place devoted an issue (no. 6) to the subject of topiary, including an essay on topiarian history by Norbert Peeters.