Golden Cypress Pom Pom Topiary Pair - Sol & Aurelia
Your pair’s QC certificate — origins, dimensions, six photos — sent before dispatch · 24 hours to review
Quick Specifications
Meet the Twins
Care & Maintenance
Botanical Specifications
Guides to Help You Plan
Bought as a pair.Backed like one.
Six things in the box that aren't plants.
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Twins, not just two
Your two trees are chosen and grown side by side, not picked off a bench on dispatch day — matched for height, for shape and for the tone of the foliage, so the symmetry is grown rather than approximated.
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Your twins' certificate
A digital certificate of authenticity travels with every pair, naming your two plants and recording the date they were matched. It's a small thing. It also tells you exactly what you own.
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You see your pair first
Before the pallet is built you receive your pair's quality-control certificate — origins, dimensions and six photographs of your actual two plants — with 24 hours to review it before dispatch.
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Care without the guesswork
Grower-written guidance for the species you've chosen: when to trim, what to feed, what to ignore, and what the first winter should look like. Written by the people who clipped them.
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Upright, tracked, palletised
The pair travels standing up on its own pallet — never boxed, never laid flat — fully tracked, with a timed kerbside delivery and a call from the driver about an hour before he turns in.
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They thrive or we step in
Six months of backing on every plant, and unlimited grower support long after that. The full terms, numbers and exclusions are set out immediately below — no asterisks.
Promises withnumbers attached.
The terms, in full — no asterisks a lawyer would love.
10cm
The Matching Guarantee
Your two plants will never differ in height by more than 10cm. That is the whole promise, and it is measurable on the doorstep with a tape.
If the pair that arrives isn't matched, email hello@topiarytwins.co.uk within 7 days of delivery, subject line “Matching Guarantee Claim – [order number]”, with a photograph of the two plants together. Claims are resolved within 24 hours, and the resolution is your choice: a replacement pair, or a full refund.
6 mo
The 6-Month Thrive Guarantee
If one of your plants fails to thrive in its first six months, we replace it at 50% of the single-plant cost. Worked example: a £1,000 pair is £500 a plant, so the replacement costs you £250. Eligibility is reviewed within 48 hours of your email — subject line “Thrive Guarantee Claim – [order number]”.
One honest exclusion: if both plants fail, the guarantee doesn't apply. Two identical failures point at the site rather than the stock — drainage, wind, a buried rubble layer — and swapping the plants would only repeat the problem. That is exactly the conversation Lifetime Care Support exists to have, and we'd rather fix the ground than sell you the same outcome twice.
Life
Lifetime Care Support
Unlimited email guidance from the people who grew your pair, answered within 24 hours, free, forever. Send a photograph of a worrying patch, a question about timing, or a picture of the shears you're about to use — there is no expiry date and no limit on how often you ask.
How to claim, step by step → in the questions below.
Three placesit simply works.
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Either side of the door, without the bulk
Stand at the gate and look at the frontage as one shape. A pom pom hands you height at the door — often a metre and a half of it — without the mass a solid clipped column would bring, because the spheres float on open branchwork and the wall behind carries on showing through. That is the whole trick: presence at eye level, air at knee level, so a narrow path or a shallow porch never feels crowded. Scale the height to the opening rather than to the budget — 1.1–1.5m sits right on a standard door, while double doors, a deep porch or a gateway carry 1.5–2m comfortably — then set the pair clear of the door swing and of the line you actually walk. The rest of our front door plants are built around exactly this move.
The courtyard character piece
A courtyard wants one plant with personality rather than ten with none, and a pom pom is personality by construction: sculptural enough to hold a sightline on its own, light enough never to loom over a small space. Keep the backdrop quiet — calm paving, render, a clipped hedge — and uplight the pair, because after dark the branchwork throws the shadows and the globes do the rest. The form also flatters a container the way a single clipped shape rarely does, and the olive positively prefers one in Britain, since a pot guarantees the sharp winter drainage it insists on. It carries a courtyard or patio almost single-handedly, and that open framework keeps weight and windage sane on a balcony or roof terrace. Frost-proof planters, real drainage holes, pot feet from October.
Colour and rhythm along a drive
Most topiary is green; pom poms also arrive in gold and steel. Face your pair across the route, then repeat further pairs down it, leaving roughly one tree's own width of air between them so each silhouette keeps its separations legible instead of merging into a hedge. Golden cypress reads as permanent sunshine against dark brick and dark window frames; blue Arizona cypress brings a cool architectural grey that flatters render, steel and glass. Both hold their colour through the winter months, which is precisely when a drive needs it most. Scale it up with the driveways and pathways collection, or, if you'd rather run a continuous planted line beneath them, set clipped edging along the same route.
What clients noticea season in.
The pair softened the entrance without losing the architecture. It still reads as a designed front — just a kinder one.
Elena · Surrey
They grow into the house. Every year the structure looks a little more like it was always meant to be there.
David · The Cotswolds
Neighbours stop to ask about them. We've handed your name over the fence more times than we can count.
James & Priya · Kent
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Same silhouette,four characters.
Every listing is a matched pair — swap the species, keep the floating spheres.
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Blue Cypress Pom Pom Pair — Aero & Caelum
Steel-blue spheres, cool and architectural — the modernist's pom pom.
Pairs £350 – £635 · 1.1–2m, four heights
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Golden Cypress Pom Pom Pair — Sol & Aurelia
Warm gold globes that hold their sunshine right through the winter.
Pairs £375 – £615 · 1.1–2m, four heights
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Mediterranean Olive Pom Pom Pair — Selvi & Dorian
Silver spheres on aged, characterful trunks — the Mediterranean voice.
Pairs £875 · 1.7–2m
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English Yew Pom Pom Pair — Hale & Mercer
The darkest green there is, generations-deep — the heirloom tier.
Pairs £940 – £2,190 · 90cm–2m, two sizes
Prefer to compare them side by side? The whole pom pom family.
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Selected together · raised side by side · photographed before dispatch
Your pom pom pair.Straight answers.
Which size pom pom pair should I choose?
Pom pom pairs are sold by overall tree height, in bands from 90–110cm up to 1.7–2m. Match the height to the job rather than to the budget: 90cm–1.3m suits pots, courtyards and low walls, where the spheres sit at seated eye level; 1.3–1.5m is the comfortable middle for a standard frontage; 1.5–2m is the doorway and gateway band, where the top sphere lands near the head of the door and the pair reads as architecture rather than decoration. Remember that a taller pom pom is simply an older tree — more years of trunk-clearing and sphere-building behind it — so the upper bands arrive with denser globes and more branch character, and the price moves with the age rather than the postage.
How closely will my two plants match?
Closely, because they were grown as twins rather than picked as a pair on dispatch day. We guarantee a height difference of no more than 10cm between them, and before your pallet is built you receive your pair's quality-control certificate — origins, dimensions and six photographs of your actual two trees — with 24 hours to review before dispatch. If the pair that arrives still isn't right, email hello@topiarytwins.co.uk within 7 days of delivery with the subject “Matching Guarantee Claim – [order number]”. Claims are resolved within 24 hours, with a replacement pair or a full refund, whichever you prefer.
Which pom pom is right for my spot?
Site first, looks second. Contemporary schemes — grey render, dark frames, gravel — suit Aero & Caelum, the blue Arizona cypress pair: steel-blue, happiest in full sun, and the entry point of the range. If the backdrop is dark brick or deep evergreen and wants lifting, Sol & Aurelia, the golden cypress pair, stays warm gold all winter and is brightest in full sun. For a sun-baked terrace, a gravel garden or a pair of pots, Selvi & Dorian, the Mediterranean olive pair, brings silver foliage on aged, characterful trunks and asks only for sharp winter drainage in return. And for shade, exposure or the long view, Hale & Mercer, the English yew pair, is the toughest and longest-lived of the four — and the only one that will regrow from old wood.
How far apart should the pair sit?
At a door or a gate, one tree each side, centred on the width available and clear of the door swing — the pair should frame the opening, never crowd it. Along a drive, path or terrace, leave roughly one tree's own width of air between pairs: close enough to read as a rhythm, far enough that each silhouette keeps its separations legible as the spheres fatten. Look up as well as along — the top sphere wants clear air above it, not the underside of a porch roof or a low branch. If you're unsure, email a photo of the spot to hello@topiarytwins.co.uk and we'll mark it up, or take the two-minute Entrance Edit and we'll suggest a layout for you.
How do I keep the spheres distinct?
Treat each sphere as its own small job: clip it round, step back, then move on to the next. The gaps between the globes are the form — let two spheres merge and the tree slides towards a blob; keep them separate and the silhouette reads as sculpture from across the street. Clear any shoots that appear on the bare branchwork between the spheres while you're there. Once or twice a year is plenty for the cypresses and the olive, and English yew asks for a single trim in late summer. One hard rule for the two cypresses: never cut back into bare wood, because conifer foliage will not regrow from it — stay within the green and trim little and often. There's a fuller walkthrough in our pom pom topiary guide.
How is a pom pom pair delivered?
Kerbside, on its own pallet, by a specialist plant haulier, UK-wide. Your two trees travel upright and are never boxed, the consignment is fully tracked, and the driver phones about an hour ahead so you can be there when he arrives. Allow 14–21 working days from order — the pair is being selected, photographed and documented during that window, not sitting in a warehouse. Delivery is to the kerb, so plan how you'll move two well-grown trees from the kerb to their position before the pallet lands.
What if one plant struggles in the first six months?
Tell us early. The 6-Month Thrive Guarantee covers a plant that fails to thrive in its first six months: we replace it at 50% of the single-plant cost. Worked example — a £1,000 pair is £500 a plant, so your replacement costs £250. Email hello@topiarytwins.co.uk with the subject “Thrive Guarantee Claim – [order number]” and we review eligibility within 48 hours. One honest exclusion: if both plants fail, the guarantee doesn't apply, because two identical failures point at the site rather than the stock and a straight swap would only repeat it. That's precisely what Lifetime Care Support is for — unlimited email guidance from the growers, answered within 24 hours, free, forever, so we can fix the conditions instead.
Matched beforeyou ever see it.
Two trees, selected together in Tuscany, raised as twins — so the symmetry at your door is grown, not approximate.
Your actual pair, side by side at our UK depot, before the pallet is built.
7-day Matching Guarantee, then the 6-month Thrive Guarantee through establishment.
Lifetime Care Support — a photo gets grower answers for as long as you own the plants.