Bush gone wild.
Can you tell me what we have and how & when to prune it. Lots of twigs below the surface with leaves on the outer edges. New growth around the base where the sun has just been able to reach it since I removed a neighboring (dead) plant. Am a "newbie" home owner. As always, many thanks.
If they're attached to a main bush, try removing enough of the soil to prune out any buried branch or cane back to the main stock.
Some of that new growth may be coming from hawthorn bushes that had been previously pruned ...»
If so, you may need to dig out it's root or it will eventually aggressively grow back and force itself into competition with them again.