Looks like a very badly pruned Gold Flame spirea. They aren't meant to be
little balls, but graceful arching shrubs.

Thanks, I think you're right. It has little pink flowers when it blooms.
And it's not a "little ball", it's over four feet high and hasn't been
pruned at all in the last five years.



If it's too big for where it is,
move it, and gradually thin out 1/3 of the oldest canes completely over the
next three years and leave the new canes to assume what size they will.

Should I get underneath it and just start cutting out the dead canes?



Dawn