From the Palace of Versailles to The Knights Who Say Ni, if you must appease specific landscaping demands, a spherical topiary could be the solution. The ancient art of sculpted shrubbery dates at least since Pliny the Elder first wrote about it in ancient Rome, if not before. So the approach is simple. Just visualize a circle, glide your clippers in a smooth, downward motion around the edges, and finish with a proper booty cut from below. Make it look nice. And not too expensive. Ni! Ni! Ni!

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