Just a Little Off the Top Please

The previous owner had beautiful landscaping along the driveway. At the house were these gorgeous Rose of Sharon bushes. When they are blooming there is so much color. Big healthy mature bushes.

They are in front of our garage window so something needs to be done with them. Can't dig them up, well we could but it would mean bringing in one of those big digger things and tearing up the whole shrub bed. So instead we opted to trim them down.

They will need to go shorter but we decided to do it in stages so they won't go into shock. Or maybe because we wanted to enjoy their flowers this year and in the fall trim them again to take them down to small balls of color.  The garage window overlooks our vista and we will pass by it every time we  come and go from the house. Also the storm shelter is right there so we need to be able to see out to the west for storms.