Pearl Fryer in Podcasts

American landscape designer Pearl Fryer, who died at the age of 86, had a very distinctive name and a very distinctive skill, topiary, the art of training, cutting and clipping shrubs and trees into distinctive shapes. He also had a distinctive life story, an African American who grew up in the segregated South and who earned the nickname the Picasso of plants. His most famous canvas was his topiary garden in South Carolina.