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ART DOESN'T just belong in galleries, and sculptures don't have to be made out of rock-hard material and created with a hammer and chisel, or even a potter's wheel. Anyone who's fond of gardening is probably creating a work of art without realising it, and anyone who's hopeless at it probably loves admiring the end result of someone else's slog anyway. 

Neat little box-hedges are, no doubt, something you associate with a colder, northern-European climate rather than in a land with sub-tropical weather where fan palms and cacti grow wild, so it stands to reason that you wouldn't be expecting leafy green statues on display much in Spain, either.

But if you've opened this article, you'll already realise that's not the case: Spain is home to plenty of topiary displays, labyrinths and deciduous garden shrubs that would not look out of place in, say, the grounds of Versailles Palace.

And some of them are so intricate and accurately-shaped that the legendary film hermit Edward Scissorhands might have been given a job there.

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