Specialty Gardening: Cottage Garden replacement for....this...., 1 by LissaD

LissaD wrote:
This juniper hedge hides our well house which sits in the middle of our front lawn. The path to the left of the pic is the walkway to our front door. The pyracantha on the right sits next to our living room window. So this is the first thing people see when they walk up to our house and it is the main view out of our living room window. This hedge is over six feet wide in spots. It is a mass of spider webs and all kinds of nastiness. Who knows what is actually living in there. I would love some advice about either taking it out, or at least taming the wild beast.

I would love to just rip it out, but I am not sure we have the manpower to do that right now... We need something to hide the well house, and keep the kiddos away from it. But I am not sure what. At the very least I will need to prune it back significantly, but if we are going to leave it, I don't want to kill it. LOL. It would be worse if it were just dead sticks and I still couldn't get it out of the ground! Can I prune it back severely and expect it to fill nicely with new green growth? Can I do that now?

Maybe I should post in the landscaping forum too, but I thought I would see if you guys had any cottage gardening tips for dealing with it. :)