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Granted they often have to be pretty mature like these rhododendron, but I love how older shrubs can often be limbed-up and transformed into a great new element in the landscape. I doubt this was intentional as much as necessary given the shade canopy building above the rhodies, but still a great outcome. My friend Nisse once cleaned up a yard of junkie junipers with an aggressive pair of pruners and transformed them into these amazing living sculptures up on the bluffs in Springs. They almost had a Japanese or Bonsai feel to them, and they looked badass to me.
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Back to the rhodies, they had been pruned up enough that you could just barely stand beneath them. It just looked like a space that totally invited a little seating area or maybe even a well crafted table that could fit within the legs of the rhododendron. That is, if this were in a home garden and not a cemetery.
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