Top Topiary - Glenn Tabor admires his amazing privet hedge at his home in Leeds, West Yorkshire, which is now his 30th year of trimming the border into the shape of a Native American paddling a canoe.

Joiner Glenn (63), has spent every week carefully trimming his topiary after a winter break, and now thinks it's never looked so good. From spring to autumn Glenn is out once a a week fine tuning the hedge to keep it in top condition and perfect shape.

The 20ft hedge sculpture called The Chief outside his home in the city, has become a local landmark over the years and draws admiring glances, lots of pointed fingers and hooting horns from passers by down the leafy street in Horsforth, Leeds.

Glen started the amazing hedge design in 1990 using manual sheers and an electric trimmer to carefully shape his hedge into a canoe. He then realised something was missing, so in later years after a little thought decided on adding the finishing touch - a Native American to paddle the canoe.

He admits that he has know idea how he came up with the idea for the design and says the canoe just fitted the hedge shape well and just wanted to brighten up the front of his house, now it is has become a labour of love.
Tuesday June 16th 2021

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Photography by Richard Walker/ImageNorth