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Train hedges toward Expo

IF YOU SEE a green 1912 puffer belly steam
train chugging its way up Grand Boulevard, don’t
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Guy Carscadden’s topiary.

Complete with wheels,
ties, track, a topiary train
crossing sign and even dry
ice steam coming out of the
smoke stack, the holly bush
in the shape of a train is the
North Vancouver man’s
tribute to the 100th year of
the Canadian Pacific
transcontinental train service
and Expo 86.

Topiaries are a 17th cen-
tury art form of trimming
and cutting plant material
into living sculptures, ex-
plains Carscadden.

The train is Carscadden’s
three-year project that
stands 14 feet high and 20
feet long in his front yard.

Carscadden, owner and
operator of Manscapes Ex-
terior Environmenta? Land-
scaping, says his train is
designed as a community
drive-by, that can be enjoyed
by all.

And enjoy people have.
The topiary, which requires
trimming every two weeks,
recently won an award of

By ROSS MEEK

merit from the B.C. Nursery
Trade Association.

Carscadden says his steam
engine is unique to Canada.
The only other topiary train
he knows of is‘in
Disneyland, California. In
Canada, the art is limited by
climate primarily to the
Lower Mainland and Van-
couver Island.

The dedicated gardener
hopes to re-enact the poun-
ding of the last spike, com-
plete with a gold spray
painted spike, on November
7, (the day the Canadian
Pacific reached B.C.) as part
of the anniversary spirit.

While Carscadden enjoys
creating his topiaries (he has
several other topiaries in his
back yard), he also creates
them for a living, selling
birds, rabbits, seals and
other figures for his clients.

The topiary can be viewed
at 1004 Grand Boulevard.

: NEWS photo Terry Peters
ning topiary train, The intricately shaped holly bush
took three years of bi-weekly trimming and cutting to create. Carscadden says his living sculpture, created for the 100th an-
niversary of transcontinental rail service and Expo 86, is designed as a community drive-by.

GUY CARSCADDEN, of Grand boulevard, shows off his award win

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