I have a giant bird of paradise right outside the bedroom. It’s become huge the last 20 years. It was planted to give me privacy but now it’s just blocking the view.  It would be a big job to dig it out of the ground.  This morning I took my pruning shears and cut away as much of the growth above ground as I could, and I’ll need a saw for the rest.  The root ball is likely 24″ deep and maybe 60″ around. I may try to break up the crown to transplant into different areas, but at this point I want to do what’s easiest.  I immediately opened up the view from the bedroom and main suite patio into the east garden.  Before, all we could see was the bird of paradise plant. Now we can watch the squirrels frisk around in the east garden as we sit on the patio outside drinking morning tea.