How Do You Create A Topiary Frame With Chicken Wire?
Not everyone’s terrace needs an angel, a leafy green cat with a long tail, or a year-round perfect Christmas tree, but such a piece of charming whimsy will complete your decor. And, the great news is you can create it from simple materials at home. Homemade topiary takes a little practice, but it rewards you with a long-lived, green, growing sculpture that requires only watering and an occasional snip to maintain. Locate, if possible, a object you can use as a mold for your first topiary. A garden statue is ideal, but you may also find ordinary household objects that, used together, meet your needs. A large, oval lamp base and a middle-sized rubber ball, for instance, could get you started on an owl, a rabbit or a cat. Whatever object(s) you use as molds should be durable enough for you to wrap in chicken wire and scratch proof to let you slide the chicken-wire on and off without damage. Cut chicken wire in pieces large enough to wrap the lamp base (body), the rubber ball (head), the p
