This is how my garden looked four years ago. The salvia in the foreground is long gone (it grew in a large clay pot at the edge of the path), and the saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) have grown quite large. To the left (outside the view in the picture) is a short hedge of Sweet Viburnum (Viburnum odoratissimum) that wraps around the path as it circles an enormous pine tree.
I do own pruners - several pairs and a lopper - but I use them with a light hand. The viburnum hedge is no longer a hedge, really. It looks more like a close grove of miniature trees. Most of the lower branches are gone, and it no longer serves its original purpose - to hide the view of the neighbor's trash pile. The trash pile and the neighbor are long gone, and the bare ground beneath the viburnums has become a good place to plant low-growing shade lovers (like bromeliads, ferns, and selaginellas). The garden has changed, and along with it my intent.
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