If you are willing to remove them then pruning sounds like a reasonable "last resort" approach. What have you to lose?

A picture might help us visualize what is wrong, but keep in mind that pruning is done for several reasons and you need to make sure that you do the right kind of pruning for the problem you have having.

Pruning for shaping usually just takes off tips (think meatball shaped shrubs) and can result in just the problem you describe.

Pruning for renewal is more what you need. You may need to make deep cuts into the bush to reduce the lanky growth and encourage more bushy growth. Picture your shrub without any leaves when you are thinking about where to cut.

There are good articles on the web if you look around.

Here is a link that might be useful: A good link

Here are some pics. As you can see, the centers stand up fine, but the rest just falls over, If I could get them to stand up, the plants would look like they are supposed to.

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I don't know why the pic won't show, I copied and pasted the source code from photobucket like I do on other forums.

You need to use the HTML code tag from Photobucket.

Consider cutting the floppy branches (or at least some of them) down to about 8 inches and letting them resprout.

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