The cruel and unusual manipulation of plants to meet human desires or expectations. Usually in the form of pruning, staking, bending, or abandonment. Also applies to the application of laboratory engineering, pesticide/herbicide, trampling, and hormonal stimulation.
It's hortitorture the way those shrubs have been pruned into the shapes of dancing raindeer.
Spraying agricultural fields with diesel fuel and herbicide is pure hortitorture!
a highschool and town in Lower Merion, the preppiest and JAPiest place not beverly hills. to live or attend, one must own an abercrombie and fitch store.