Big Green Blobs, You’re Outta Here!
The most recent Grow Write Guild’s writing prompt asks what in my garden I’d most like to get rid of.
The answer for me, here at Serendipity Gardens, is easy: two giant forsythia shrubs in the front yard, shown in this photo as the two green blobs on the left and right. These shrubs are quite old. They were fully grown when we moved to Serendipity Gardens 11 years ago.
We left them unpruned for three or four years. I wanted them to look natural, whereas the previous owner preferred to shape them into a ball. But they grew so large that they took over the yard, so pruning became a must. It took my husband a day to do, crawling around under the shrub — and when he was done, we had two pickup truck loads of branches to take to the recycling facility!
