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[etakyma]

I wonder what the heck the people who first landscaped around my house were thinking. If it isn't thorny it has unfortunate berries. When I first moved in and took out all the vastly overgrown bushes in the front they ALL had thorns. And when I say vastly overgrown, I mean up over the roof-line overgrown. Not the type of a little overgrown some trimming could handle - this was a cut it off dig it up type of overgrown.

And I've still got massive amounts of weeds springing up everywhere that is also very thorny. And the trees are laden down with messy little berries - and not the types you can eat. They just get *everywhere.*

Going outside is all kinds of dangerous with the sharp and the squish. Lets not even bring the back yard into it (there is one particularly nasty bit of vegetation I am on the verge of naming Audrey 3)!

Although, I am saving money for some landscaping stuff - probably won't be able to do much all at once. But little by little - like the rest of the house.

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[ksl2025.livejournal.com]

My sister, the landscaper, refers to dealing with stuff like that as butt pruning. You take a chainsaw to it and take it off at ground level. :-)

If they are overgrown, no amount of trimming will bring most plants back into line. Depending on the species involved, if they aren't maintained, you won't be able to bring them back into a good shape or size. They grown into themselves as nature intended, which isn't what most people want to see.

Removal and replace is likely your best bet.