Garden Topiary Plant Art

• 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 there two minutes, and already managed to mess up someone elses topiary garden.