So a lot of people have juniper or other evergreen shoves around their house. It's important to think about pruning these shoves not only for a pleasing shape but also for maintenance issues such as keeping them away from their siding on your house or for example keeping them away from your air conditioning units. It's really important that we don't take off too much because if we prune it back too far we're going to get to a point where we're going to be cutting beyond the growth points of the plant and it will not grow back and we're going to end up with just a bare side on the shrub that's not going to look very pleasing. What I'd really like to do is cut this bush back a couple of feet from the air conditioning unit but that's something that we're going to probably be doing over a period of the next two to three years because we're not going to want to take a tremendous amount of the shrub out or we'll just end up with a dead edge of the shrub that won't look very nice. So it's important to remember not to get too excited when we're trying to prune away from an obstacle. This is a slow process and it should be done over a period of years so that we again can maintain the shape of this shrub as well as the regrowth and the beauty that it adds to our landscape. If you have any further questions contact your local extension office. This is Caleb Carter with the University of Wyoming Extension. You're watching From the Ground Up.