Topiary, the art of creating sculpture in clipped plants, originated with the Romans, who employed ‘toparii’ to clip their hedges. The fashion traveled throughout Europe in the Renaissance, using rosemary, lavender and hyssop as well as the more traditional evergreens of yew, holly, myrtle and box. (…) Despite box disease and labor shortages, topiary has seen a revival in the twenty-first century, and amateurs in the art can purchase ‘preformed’ rabbits and deer to graze suburban lawns.