Limbed Up Privet

One of the most effective things I did in the back yard was to limb up the Chinese privet by the back fence last summer. Kind of on a whim.

It gave it a nice shape, opened up the area below, let me view what was beyond from the vantage of the deck, and it just looks nicer. 

Now there is a tiny Mojave sage transplant settled in below. If I can get it to take, and if it will thrive in this part shade swale between the crabapple and the privet, it will be nice.

The Chinese privet is now almost tree-like, adding some vertical height to the long horizontal fence line.
 

Some pictures of it before I did the chop job last summer -- really, it was a huge bomb of a shrub, just immense and wide spreading, barely topping the fence.

And here it was before we took out the Spanish broom and created the circle garden. Even before the crabapple was planted next to it. A big ball.

Now, limbed up and more elegantly shaped, it is way taller than the fence line.

Limbing this up worked out well.