Hello, I am new to this board, and - having lived in apartments all my life - new to gardening as well. We have rented a house in Moreton Bay and we're allowed to plant in the gardens - kind of practicing for when we buy our own house. The neighborhood is full of beautiful gardens and very lush front yards. Unfortunately, we have a very ugly plant in front of our house, the ugliest in the whole suburb, I should say. As you can see in the attached pictures it is overgrowing and smothering the other smaller plants. Parts of it seem to be growing "upside down"... just horrible. Can you please tell me what plant this is and what I should do with it? Does it supposed to have some kind of shape that I should cut, or just cut it back everywhere? I'm afraid it would look even worse... If it was my house I would just rip it right out of the garden, but I obviously can not do that. Your advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Quả óc chó