Gardening Cleanup (To Fill up the Bin on Trash Day)

I had a big empty yard waste bin that needed to go to the curb filled for tomorrow morning, so I decided to go a little bit crazy on the butterfly bush in the corner of the yard. Here’s the before picture:

After much cutting and sawing and pruning and snapping branches, I had a full-to-the-brim bin and a butterfly bush that looked. . .

pretty much the same, truthfully. It looks like I’ve got quite a few more bins-worth of work to do to get this bush tamed.