{"id":892456,"date":"2026-10-24T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892456\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:04:13","slug":"topiary-artist-trims-garden-at-ships-of-the-sea-maritime-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892456\/","title":{"rendered":"Topiary artist trims garden at Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) &#8211; A topiary artist performed the first official trim of the garden at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shipsofthesea.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shipsofthesea.org\/\">Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum <\/a>on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Michael Gibson, known for his \u201cliving sculptures,\u201d led live demonstrations for guests at the museum.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Topiary artist trims garden at Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2ZBC5QJ4MRBUTALJ2VB6G5BSFM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Topiary artist trims garden at Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum(WTOC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Guests watched as he shaped shrubs into art while explaining the techniques, history and storytelling behind topiary design.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI came up with a concept to make the garden, the ilex vomtoria or the yaupon holly, to look like the sea,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cThey look like waves and ripples of the water and what that voyage would have looked like when the Savannah left the harbor and made it to London back in 1819.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event gave visitors a preview of Gibson\u2019s plans for a full exhibition coming to Ships of the Sea in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WTOC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) &#8211; A topiary artist performed the first official trim of the garden at Ships of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,374121,374123,374122,374125,374124],"class_list":["post-892456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-gibson-topiary-artist","tag-savannah-garden-topiary","tag-ships-of-the-sea-maritime-museum","tag-ss-savannah-1819-voyage","tag-yaupon-holly-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}