Does anyone else feel like they don’t know when to stop?

As a probable adult autistic, I recently decided to chop down some bushes in my garden as they were getting really tall. Hours later and there doesn’t seem to be much left. The hedges looked really nice, but now there are hardly any left. I couldn’t tell at the time how much hacking I was doing, but the following day I was shocked to see how bad the garden looked and there’s a massive pile of branches etc that I’ll need to pay someone to take away  

Has anyone else gone down this particular rabbit hole as it’s really upsetting. I know the hedges will grow back at some point but it’s a little scary not realising at the time how much I was going over the top. 

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  • I have a red robin, Photinia x fraseri. It is about 10 ft tall. I grew it as a tree, with a single trunk. Thee are no branches till about 5:feet up then I keep it as a 3-4 ft wide column with a flat top.

    It got too big at one point so I cut it back so it was just a trunk with stumps of side branches. It grew back and made it more dense. You can chop to shape without worrying.

    Photinias have a number species and will either become a large shrub or a small 30ft tree eventually. If you don't cut them they will flower, but the flowers are nothing to get excited about.

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