25 Sept 2013

Topiary Horse


Location: The garden by Simpson House, Riverdale Farm
Date photo taken: 5 June 2013

Topiary figures are whimsical and wonderful additions to parks and open spaces, but you rarely see them these days. One of the reasons for this is that they are time-consuming to construct and maintain. This horse, formed by carefully training English ivy around a metal form, was created over the winter in the High Park greenhouses by a City of Toronto gardener then moved to Riverdale Farm in the spring, where it currently sits gazing at the barn.

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