By Sharon Cohoon, Sunset senior garden writer

We wrote about the new Hamilton Children's Garden here recently.  If that didn't convince you to pay Quail Botanical Gardens another visit, this event might.

Pearl Fryar, shown opposite, will be the guest artist at Garden Expressions, an annual celebration of artistry in all forms, which takes places at the Gardens on Sunday, August 23.

Fryar is the owner and creator of Fryar's Topiary Garden, a 3-acre garden in South Carolina that has become world famous.  Especially after the 2006 documentary called "A Man Named Pearl."

The topiary artist will be creating living works of art at noon and again at three that day.  No one, including Quail staff, know quite what Pearl and his power trimmer will come up with.  But it won't be your usual topiary.  "I'm not into animals and teapots," he says.  "I'm into the abstract and working with the negative spaces."

Below is a sample of his work.

 If you like Fryar's creations at Quail, you might be able to go home with one.  I understand his topiaries will be auctioned off after the demonstrations.