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Moving around the corner of the house with the husband’s new toy….
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More shrubbery was tamed. (Yes, I’m aware we’re missing a few shutters. They’re in the garage, where they’ve been since they blew off the house 4 years ago. That’s how long I’ve been bugging the husband to put them back up. 😖 )
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And in the other corner?
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The flowering quince bush from Hell. I annually curse whoever planted this abomination of a plant.
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Every year we wack it down.
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And every year it grows back up to the roofline. If we let it go unchecked? I believe it would swallow the house in one gulp.
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It’s pretty when it blooms, and yes….
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It produces (inedible) quince fruit, but it’s an utter nightmare the rest of the year. Did I mention the beast is also full of thorns? Good times when you have to gather it up, stuff it in a garden cart and haul it down to the woods, over and over again.
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The woods that are wayyyy down there. At times it seemed like the trimming would never end.
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But we finally got it down to the last few branches.
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Before….
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And many sweaty hours after….
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Is it pretty? No.
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Heck, with the husband wielding the trimmer it isn’t even straight. But it’s smaller… and we can see out the windows again.
That’s a win when battling demonic shrubbery.
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River's world..... 
If you trim all the shrubs like that, you can pretend that it’s just really windy…
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I like that idea. Make people look twice…
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Which begs the question: why haven’t you removed the whole thing?
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It’s been there since 1994….I think the roots are 300 feet deep and made of iron. It’s impossible to pull up the little shooter growth once they take hold. We’d have to burn it out and it’s too close to the house for that.
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I have to agree with ralietravels, why haven’t you just yanked the quince bush from hell out completely?
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See my comment. I wish we could but at this point I think the only option is to get a witch to curse it.
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Done! I’ll be over there in the winter when it’s dormant, I’ll get rid of it in not time…lmao.
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Ha! I’ll fluff the pillows in the guest room…. it’s right behind the quince bush.
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That’s exactly where I need to be if you want that thing gone…lol.
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Close proximity. Got it. Will you requiring black candles and a goat for bloodletting… or will you bring your own?
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I have my own, black candles, and no need to kill an innocent animal over a stupid quince bush from hell. I have my ways…*insert evil laugh here*
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Must be the week – I pruned our quince bushes this week as well.
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Does your grow this rapidly as well?
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Yes. We had branched that I had to cut in half to get in a leaf bag. Someone posted a recipe a couple years ago about slicing the fruit and sautéing the slices in butter and spices. We haven’t tried. The bunnies like to eat the leaves.
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Another reason I need bunnies!
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Your house must be lighter inside without shrubs blocking the light!
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It definitely is!
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It’s from the apple family – maybe hubby shoulda planted an apple tree there if he wanted it to survive… but then there’d be furpeople rustling and munching at the window.
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We have 3 mature apple trees and 6 new apple tree saplings. We’re appled out.
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Throwing your branches into the woods is way better than having to cart them to the dump.
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Agreed. But after the 20th trip up the hill you begin to question why you don’t take a chain saw to the bush once and for all.
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True!
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I’ve never tried quince, so I probably couldn’t distinguish edible from inedible anyway.
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People make jelly from it up here… but I’ve never developed a taste for it.
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I’d cut it down to 2′ tall and call it square. lol
Seriously tho, I’d love a cutting. I have a place it can live in freedom.
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If it was out in the middle of nowhere I wouldn’t mind. But never, ever plant one near your house!
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It would out on the far edge for a privacy fence.
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I was also wondering why not have it removed, but then I saw your answer above. That is a beast of a bush.
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After all these years I’m afraid if we burned the roots our foundation would collapse.
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