{"id":1339,"date":"2010-03-03T08:01:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2015-12-27T13:36:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T18:36:42","slug":"topiaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/03\/topiaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Topiaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing this mention of a documentary about <em>&#8220;A Man Named Pearl&#8221; <\/em>about Pearl Fryar, a self-taught topiary artist, and a modern-day Edward Scissorhands, got me thinking of the wonderful and magical visits my family and I took to several topiary gardens. Watching the trailer is inspirational, particularly the philosophy of the film, regarding overcoming obstacles. It&#8217;s now on my short lists of films to see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"A Man Named Pearl, the movie website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amannamedpearl.com\/#\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1340\" title=\"A Man Named Pearl. Photo by Shadow Distribution via Washington Post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/wp_topiaryphoto_mannamedpearl.jpg\" alt=\"A Man Named Pearl. Photo by Shadow Distribution via Washington Post\" width=\"500\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wp_topiaryphoto_mannamedpearl.jpg 988w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wp_topiaryphoto_mannamedpearl-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The most recent topiary gardens that we visited was Green Animals Topiary Gardens in Portsmouth Rhode Island, my husband&#8217;s home state. We wanted to check out our sons&#8217; sister school, <a title=\"Portsmouth Abbey website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portsmouthabbey.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portsmouth Abbey<\/a> right down the road, at the time when they were attending <a title=\"St. Anselm's Abbey School\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saintanselms.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Anselm&#8217;s Abbey School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Side note: here&#8217;s an illustration I did as a gift and thanks to the school before our sons graduated and left St. Anselm&#8217;s, a school we still strongly support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Fine Art on ashley-spencer.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/fineart.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1348\" title=\"St. Anselm\\'s Abbey School Illustration by C. Ashley Spencer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/st-anselms-illustration.png\" alt=\"St. Anselm\\'s Abbey School Illustration by C. Ashley Spencer\" width=\"474\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/st-anselms-illustration.png 535w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/st-anselms-illustration-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Green Animals via the Photo Garden Bee\" href=\"http:\/\/thephotogardenbee.com\/2010\/01\/26\/2933\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1341\" title=\"Green Animals photo via the Photo Garden Bee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/ga-elephant-giraffe.jpg\" alt=\"Green Animals photo via the Photo Garden Bee\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ga-elephant-giraffe.jpg 579w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ga-elephant-giraffe-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is the oldest topiary garden in the United States and has somewhat of a cottage style feel in comparison to <a title=\"Ladew Gardens website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ladewgardens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ladew Gardens<\/a>, the other topiary gardens that we last visited in 1994. I think we need to go back. Here are some pictures we took &#8212; before the digital age, so I had to search and scan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics1_blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1343\" title=\"Ladew Gardens. Photo by C. Ashley Spencer\/ArtIsEverywhere blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics1_blog.jpg\" alt=\"Ladew Gardens. Photo by C. Ashley Spencer\/ArtIsEverywhere blog\" width=\"295\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics1_blog.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics1_blog-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics2_blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1344\" title=\"Ladew Gardens2. Photo by C. Ashley Spencer\/ArtIsEverywhere blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics2_blog.jpg\" alt=\"Ladew Gardens2. Photo by C. Ashley Spencer\/ArtIsEverywhere blog\" width=\"427\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics2_blog.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics2_blog-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The boys, now men in my life:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics3_blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1345\" title=\"Ladew Gardens3. Photo by C. Ashley Spencer\/ArtIsEverywhere blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics3_blog.jpg\" alt=\"Ladew Gardens3. Photo by C. Ashley Spencer\/ArtIsEverywhere blog\" width=\"284\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics3_blog.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics3_blog-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics4_blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1346\" title=\"Ladew Gardens4. Photo by C. Ashley Spencer\/ArtIsEverywhere blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics4_blog.jpg\" alt=\"Ladew Gardens4. Photo by C. Ashley Spencer\/ArtIsEverywhere blog\" width=\"283\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics4_blog.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ladewtopiary1994pics4_blog-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I love this last picture of my now 17 year old son, Jackson. What a cutie, boy I miss those days&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"The hung topiary via Ladew Gardens\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ladewgardens.com\/index2.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1347\" title=\"The Hunt Topiary scene via Ladew Gardens website\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/hunt-scenegif.gif\" alt=\"The Hunt Topiary scene via Ladew Gardens website\" width=\"500\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hunt-scenegif.gif 504w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hunt-scenegif-300x164.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is a lot of humor and each garden radiating off the middle fountain\/ field has a theme &#8211; well worth visiting again and not too far from us, just outside Baltimore, MD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing this mention of a documentary about &#8220;A Man Named Pearl&#8221; about Pearl Fryar, a self-taught topiary artist, and a modern-day Edward Scissorhands, got me thinking of the wonderful and magical visits my family and I took to several topiary gardens. Watching the trailer is inspirational, particularly the philosophy of the film, regarding overcoming obstacles. It&#8217;s now on my short lists of films to see. The most recent topiary gardens that we visited was Green Animals Topiary Gardens in Portsmouth Rhode Island, my husband&#8217;s home state. We wanted to check out our sons&#8217; sister school, Portsmouth Abbey right down the road, at the time when they were attending St. Anselm&#8217;s Abbey School. Side note: here&#8217;s an illustration I did as a gift and thanks to the school before our sons graduated and left St. Anselm&#8217;s, a school we still strongly support. This is the oldest topiary garden in the United States and has somewhat of a cottage style feel in comparison to Ladew Gardens, the other topiary gardens that we last visited in 1994. I think we need to go back. Here are some pictures we took &#8212; before the digital age, so I had to search and scan. The boys, now men in my life: I love this last picture of my now 17 year old son, Jackson. What a cutie, boy I miss those days&#8230;. There is a lot of humor and each garden radiating off the middle fountain\/ field has a theme &#8211; well worth visiting again and not too far from us, just outside Baltimore, MD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,420,69,63,90,58,15,64,41],"tags":[1142,203,1145,1143,1147,721,1146,1144],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-casartcoverings-com","category-design","category-everyday","category-family","category-film","category-illustration","category-nature","category-philosophy","tag-a-man-named-pearl","tag-garden","tag-green-animals","tag-pearl-fryar","tag-portsmouth-abbey-school","tag-rhode-island","tag-st-anselms-abbey-school","tag-topiary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- 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