Curlie

Shaping

Gardeners and landscapers employ various techniques to shape plants into forms they do not naturally attain. Examples include bonsai, topiary, and espaliering. Sites about either of those three techniques are listed in their own subcategories, listed here. Sites about shaping plants in other ways may be listed in this collection category.

Sites on painting, carving, and crafting mature gourds belong in Arts/Visual_Arts/Object-Based_Art/Gourd_Art

Sites selling gourd products belong in Shopping/Crafts/Nature/Gourds

Espalier

Espalier is the practice of training woody plants, usually fruit trees, to grow flat against a structure.

Gourds

How-to articles on manipulating the form of a gourd or squash or other suitable fruit while it grows and examples of gourds manipulated in those ways.

Sites on painting, carving, and crafting mature gourds belong in Arts/Visual_Arts/Object-Based_Art/Gourd_Art

Sites selling gourd products belong in Shopping/Crafts/Nature/Gourds

Topiary

Cultural information about growing and creating topiary plant specimens.

Retail sites selling topiary works should submit to: Shopping/Home_and_Garden/Landscape_Design/Topiary

Wholesale suppliers of topiary products are correctly submitted to: Business/Agriculture_and_Forestry/Horticulture/Ornamentals

Sites about the creation of functional items or structures created by manipulating a planting of trees should submit to the Structural_Topiary subcategory