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Poodling: On the Just Shaping of Shrubbery

By Marc Treib
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By Marc Treib
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Poodling is a vernacular approach to pruning shrubbery: a negotiation between gardener and shrub that pits human aesthetic intention against the genetic forces that guide the plant's natural development. Topiary shears shrubs into a singular form geometric or figure; poodling, in contrast, treats each branch individually and shapes its leaves or needles into the forms that remain at their ends.

In this informed, if light-hearted, telling of the story, noted landscape historian Marc Treib tr...

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