You clearly don’t need help getting that plant to grow upwards lol, but if you want to thin the overcrowding for aesthetic purposes, snip a few of the offending branches at their base with loppers to make room for the bushes, starting small and snipping a few more every time you trim until you’re happy :).
While it could certainly use a trim-up and some cleared avenues for maintenance, it’s a lovely garden bed and you don’t need to overthink it.
The bottom covers the bushes around it. Should I let it, or clear out the bottom forcing the tree to only grow upwards not downwards?
You clearly don’t need help getting that plant to grow upwards lol, but if you want to thin the overcrowding for aesthetic purposes, snip a few of the offending branches at their base with loppers to make room for the bushes, starting small and snipping a few more every time you trim until you’re happy :).
While it could certainly use a trim-up and some cleared avenues for maintenance, it’s a lovely garden bed and you don’t need to overthink it.