Crepe murder
Sounds like something a cereal killer would do
Crepe*
I’m a creeeeeepe, I’m a Myrtle
Both spellings are acceptable.
What yer sposed to do is prune whole limbs at their bases (or start of fork if trimming a forked limb), to trim these back when needed. Amputating the limbs in the middle causes lots of little sprout limbs to come out of the stump, and makes it look shitty.
Please tell that to every old person in my town. They think the ‘trimmed’ picture is how trees are supposed to naturally exist. Its so crazy.
That’s how it was taught back in the day. My BIL was a landscape architect. He learned that method in college.
I was convinced my father was telling me to kill the damn trees.
Some friends unfortunate enough to live in a HOA would feel this in their souls lol.
I don’t like aggressive pruning but it’s not done while they’re in bloom. Mine is taking over the sidewalk so I need to do this, but it’s also not flowering or even has leaves at the moment.
You don’t need to do this. If properly pruned, crape myrtles will form a canopy over the sidewalk that doesn’t interfere with pedestrians and actually provides shade; if topped like the picture, they will form an unruly mass of growth right at head height.
I don’t prune like this.
Doesn’t matter when it’s done. It’s bad for the tree.
Not saying it’s bad or not, it’s just a bad comparison. It’s implying it looks like crap, but the alternative is not what’s on the left. The alternative is what’s on the left with no blooms or leaves.
OK I guess. It takes a while for them to recover from this though. It’s not just right after they’re cut. There will be several seasons of diminished bloom and health.
I find an uncut crape with no leaves to be one of the most attractive seasons for them, personally.
Moaning Myrtle.
Well done.
Looks more like Crack Myrtle
