In our part of the world there is a similar phenomenon: azaleas pruned within an inch of their lives into improbably smooth boulders. We’d drive through tidy neighborhoods when I was a child and my mom would sneer, “Pink elephant butts!”.
Oh man! See, the kicker here is that someone *chose to do such a horrible thing! Geez…
my grandparents had a magnolia in their front garden which was always ‘pruned’ into a lollipop because it obscured the view of the field and countryside beyond. I could never convince them that if they allowed it to grow to it’s full potential, there would, in time. just be a narrow trunk in their line of sight and they would also be able to enjoy the full magnificence of the blooms.
Your title is a most elegant way to describe the vegetative abomination that is topiary.
Words fail.
Yup. Fuck that shrub.
It looks like a mugshot 🙁
In our part of the world there is a similar phenomenon: azaleas pruned within an inch of their lives into improbably smooth boulders. We’d drive through tidy neighborhoods when I was a child and my mom would sneer, “Pink elephant butts!”.
Oh man! See, the kicker here is that someone *chose to do such a horrible thing! Geez…
my grandparents had a magnolia in their front garden which was always ‘pruned’ into a lollipop because it obscured the view of the field and countryside beyond. I could never convince them that if they allowed it to grow to it’s full potential, there would, in time. just be a narrow trunk in their line of sight and they would also be able to enjoy the full magnificence of the blooms.
Your title is a most elegant way to describe the vegetative abomination that is topiary.