Trimmed my bush, before and after pics!

Bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata)

I don't trim too many of the bushes except I like too keep the bitterbrush trimmed once a year to help them stay in shape and size.  Bitterbrush is on one the few desert shrubs that can handle being shaped. It would probably work well as a desert hedge.  It also will grow well next to lawns or with no direct irrigation at all. 

A nice sent and yellow flowers in the late spring.  Good for deer browse and other wildlife.    

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After

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All three after, hard too see.

And this is what I water everything with except the grass.

And some very bad shots through the window of Chipping Sparrows.