sunnyejk

I am so grateful for your forthright-ness and honesty. I don't find you cynical at all but a defender of the helpless plants. I have this problem with the new home I bought this spring-- those round balls of varying diameters in front of my house. I think it is some sort of box bush, but the previous owners tried the same sculpting methods with leland cypress in the back and I don't even like to think about what they did to the crepe myrtles. They are naked gray stems about 4 feet hich with an explosion of foliage sticking out on top of that. I don't want to cut it all down or dig it all out but I also don't want to subject the plants to this tortuous conformity or myself to the enslavement of having to prune every week!! Oh, and I also have about a 20-foot rectangular holly hedge in the back yard which I could allow to grow on its own as there are no windows or structures nearcy.