Pearl tells us, "There's always gonna be obstacles. The thing is, you don't let those obstacles determine where you go." So Fryar is a man who's chosen his own eccentric path. The tiny rural community of Bishopville, South Carolina, provides the unlikely setting for Pearl Fryar's inspired topiary garden. With no formal training, Fryar picked up plants dumped by the local nursery and just started creating an elaborate garden. He began trimming and sculpting tress and shrubbery that horticulturalists said he couldn't, and the results are often spectacular - some of the abstract shapes looking like they came right off the page of a Dr. Seuss book. Fryar soon won local fame for transforming a field where cows used to graze into a garden to rival almost any in the world. The son of a sharecropper, Fryar didn't let any stereotypes or social expectations keep him from pursuing not just a big dream but a unique one as well.
