pollarded plane

Has anyone seen a wider-spreading plane tree than this one, in Provence?

Black Pine

Black pine (Pinus thunbergii) in someone's front garden, Osaka.

Cupressus glabra

Frosty Cupressus glabra, yew twmps and stone stacks down in Dorset. 

All my own work!

Monkaburi

Japanese Black Pine (pinus thunbergii) trained over an entranceway in the monkaburi style. Rural Osaka. 

In the second image, look at the new extension being trained up on the right.

Gordes

Terraced gardens at the hill-top village of Gordes, Provence.

Churchyard yews

Organic yew hedge, a churchyard somewhere in Shropshire.

Shisendo-in

Shisendo-in, Kyoto.

One of my favorite gardens in Kyoto, tucked away in the foothills to the NE of the city, it's full of remarkable evergreen azalea karikomi (clipped shrubs) that create entire landscapes within the garden. Come May and June, the whole lot erupts in an explosion of pink, red and white flowers, but for the rest of the year it's kept well clipped. The gardeners use long handled shears and traditional bamboo tripod ladders, but most gardeners nowadays use modern aluminium ones.