She'd gotten a thumbs up for a few of her points. Awesome. Obviously she was on the right track and her ramble hadn't been such a bad thing. Like it would have been if none of it was relevant, or correct information wise.

Raising her hand eagerly once again Ana began with the first question asked, "At home my mum used three different techniques for creating Topiary. Stuffing, freeform and frame supported topiary." she listed the techniques that she knew. There were probably more but those were the ones that she was familiar with so that's what she was going with.

"I suppose the method that you use would probably depend on the type of plant that you're using to create the topiary, as well as the age of the plant. So for shrubs, or bushy plants it might make more sense to use the free form technique as the way the plants grow simply wouldn't be suitable for the weaving necessary with the other two methods? With the framing my mum used Ivy. She said it was a good plant to use for that method as the stems were easy to wrap around the frame. Herbs would be good for this method as well. Also, that method's good for creating two dimensional topiary, whereas stuffing and free form create more three dimensional shapes. I believe that for stuffing sphagnum is most commonly used along with baby plants, and so the soil is hidden. Oh, and you also are going to need to water a stuffed topiary more at first. The moss needs to be kept wet, at least until enough time has passed that the plants you've used can reach the soil. So this probably wouldn't be a great method to use if you aren't attentive when it comes to regularly watering your plants, or if you don't have the time to make sure it's misted regularly," Ana was sure that there was probably another reason as well. Oh, right size.

"Along with considering how mature, or large the plants are when you start the topiary you also want to consider how big you want them to get. A free form topiary is likely to be able to grow larger than a topiary formed by the other methods I mentioned as you're essentially just pruning it a whole lot, whereas with the other methods you're teaching them to grow around a frame, and their likely to be easier to prune as needed if you have any stray lengths that aren't growing in the way that they're meant to,"
Ana finished off, happier with her answer this time, although not completely so. She had a feeling that she was missing something, or that she wasn't thinking outside the box enough. Still it was all she could think of so she'd have to content herself with it.