Triple C
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Elfiii for the win. Let em grow as they are naturally designed to do.Don't commit crepe rape! Let 'em grow!
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Crepe Myrtle - How Far To Cut Back
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Don't commit crepe rape! Let 'em grow!
Round here Crepe Murder gets you a ticket if you are a business.
Artfuldodger
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Crepe rape, crepe murder, lol. My daughter hates it. Anyway most of the crepe myrtles in August look like this;
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Crapemyrtle – Which is the Right Way to Prune | Walter Reeves: The Georgia Gardener
There are many opinions on which is the "correct" way to prune a crapemyrtle. A landscape owner may want a smaller tree, more blooms, or less work....all of which demand a different kind of pruning. Dr. Gary Knox at the University of Florida did an experiment over a couple of years. He compared...
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Another couple. Heard comments in past years from ignorant relatives, "How come steve is the only one who doesn't cut his crepe myrtles down every fall???"
You can see the places where it did get cut down in the past, before I moved in.
That's my opinion, they are intended to be smaller sized yard trees. Not shrubbery or hedges and not suitable for planting close to a house.
You can see the places where it did get cut down in the past, before I moved in.
That's my opinion, they are intended to be smaller sized yard trees. Not shrubbery or hedges and not suitable for planting close to a house.
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If you want a head-high shrub, plant something that grows as a head-high shrub. Don't plant a tree and try to force it to be a shrub.
Plus, they will become a beautiful flowering tree at least once or twice a year, if they are allowed room to grow.
Yep.
Geffellz18
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I can’t stand the things now-I’d cut and burn em down!
Whoever owned the home before me must have loved the things as there were no less than 16 planted around the yard. I cut down and removed the root ball for the 8 or so planted right by the house. The remaining root strands STILL have offshoots try to grow.
They are pretty trees, I agree but I replaced them around the house beds with a regular & red Dogwood and Japanese Magnolia along with some shrubs.
Whoever owned the home before me must have loved the things as there were no less than 16 planted around the yard. I cut down and removed the root ball for the 8 or so planted right by the house. The remaining root strands STILL have offshoots try to grow.
They are pretty trees, I agree but I replaced them around the house beds with a regular & red Dogwood and Japanese Magnolia along with some shrubs.
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