This... this was hard work. Physically, that is. All Toby was doing was casting the spell, but BOY was it taxing. But he kept on with the spell, casting it over and over until, from a point somewhere just below level with his shoulders, part of the topiary sloped up in the vague shape of a tower with that cone type roof. Aware that his design had extra details, he left it slightly bigger than it needed to be, and purposely avoided a particular little clump of foliage that would need extra special attention to detail.

Now that he had that main structure, Tobias shuffled around the wiggenbush, getting rid of every other part of the shrub that went over the roughly 4ft point. He'd need to be careful, because the other parts of his structure had little towers and sticky out details, so Tobias checked and double checked and triple checked to make extra sure he wasn't about to hack off remove a part that he'd later need present.

"Flipnsnipwitit!" the Hufflepuff cast as he shuffled, taking off parts of the bush in his slow and steady way. A few months ago, who would have even believed that Tobias Tempus could even move this slowly? "Flipnsnipwitit!"

... ah.

Just as he was trying to cut off the last chunk of bush that was up this high (apart from his tower) Toby hit a snag. The branch he was trying to cut through was simply not going to budge with the trimming charm. Too thick, see? Of course, there was a simple remedy for this, but the sudden interuption to the flow of his work had jarred the boy, and he stood blinking for a few moments before snapping back to action.

"Diffindo!" Tobias said, pointing his wand at that last stubborn branch and watching as it fell away. Had his reflexes been any better, Toby might have attempted to catch the cutting on its decent, but he didn't even try. It was best to avoid sudden movements at his age. The ol' bones liked to play up.

This seemed like the perfect opportunity to take a step back, literally, and see how well the overall project was going.