Pearl Fryar dies at 86. The self-taught topiary artist spread a message of love.

For years, he would work his 12-hour shift at a can factory, then come home to tend to his carefully trimmed oaks, pines, boxwoods and junipers. Floodlights helped him keep gardening after dark. And a bevy of makeshift tools — PVC pipes, coat hangers, even pantyhose — helped him turn his once-ordina...

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