HOW TO BUILD-A-BUSH.....

Here is a photo of my arborvitae nearly cut down to a five foot stump.

It was really difficult to see it go. It was home to many generations of birds and a playground for the squirrels.

I had carefully pulled out the euonymous vines that had grown up through it nearly 15 feet and wrapped them around the "stump". It was a cold March day and I didn't waste any time making it "pretty" I just
wanted to save the vines that took years to grow so long and NOT have to dig out the stump!

TA DA!!! This is what I had in mind. On a nice WARM day in May I finally finished my project. I cut back
a good bit of euonymous that had taken over some of the garden. Then I carefully "sculpted" the bush
leaving only three branches from the euonymous growing on the left as the base of the bush which
you can clearly see. I think they look like tenacles---but that's just me. I am just tickled that I was able to
keep part of the arborvitae and the very long branches of the euonymous creating a living sculpture!