Shrub Overgrownus

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Fonda Garden lilac shrubs are overgrown with dead branches and have reached extreme heights.  I am pretty sure they have never been pruned.






Here's the front view of the Fonda Garden.  The lilacs are quite large and poorly shaped.  Time for a drastic pruning.






Well, they still don't look good in the background.  Maybe they just need to go.  Time to get my saw out again.  The trunks are very large.  My efforts with the handsaw didn't work very well, so a seasonal maintenance worker took a chainsaw to them.





 They are gone!  Sometimes things just look better when they aren't there.  The thought of having a backdrop of lilacs was fine, but the upkeep just wasn't there.




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