Removing shrubs

There are 3 shrubs in my garden which I want to extract from their current positions in order to put a garden shed there instead.



I'm considering a plan of chopping off all the branches, then digging up the roots. Is this a crazy plan?

(I would consider trying to move the smaller two to somewhere else in the garden if I could work out where to. The other problem is that the shrub I like most - the one in the first of the three pictures - seems to have some kind of parasitic vine growing round it, which I tried to chop back last year but which retains a hold ...

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Well it may seem crazy but it can be done and will take some hard work to dig out the root balls. Once you've stripped the branches give the root balls a good soaking and leave overnight, that should make it easier for digging.

If you mean the green stems around it, that looks like a rose to me and may be a climber.

 

To dig them out just take off the branches and leave the truck that will give you a hand when you need to rock it about to help get the root ball out, make sure you dig around the root as much as you can, the bigger the hole the better

 

I agree with Loofah,

A plant needs its foliage to breathe through. If you cut everything off it will die.

That method would work if you were doing it during the Winter, dormant season, as long as they're not evergreens.