Popular Culture
- In the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp film Edward Scissorhands, Edward proves to have a natural gift for topiary art. Numerous creative works are shown throughout the movie.
- In the Stephen King novel The Shining, topiary animals that move when people aren't looking frighten the Torrance family.
- In the children's novel The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston, an overgrown topiary figure of Noah plays a sinister role.
- A real-life topiary artist is one of the subjects of Errol Morris's Fast, Cheap and Out of Control.
- In the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants episode Atlantis Squarepantis, Squidward says to SpongeBob that he's only been here two minutes, and already managed to mess up someone else's topiary garden. Additionally, Squidward once made a bust of his head in topiary.
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