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Heard a guy at the nursery say crape murder is fine...
Was at a local nursery last weekend picking up some soil amendments and this older fella was telling the cashier he "shapes" his crape myrtles by lopping off the tops every spring. Said it keeps them from getting too tall. I wanted to jump in but kept my mouth shut... that kind of topping just causes weak regrowth and ruins the natural form. I see it all over my neighborhood too. Has anyone actually changed a homeowner's mind about this practice?
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miller.jason19d ago
Watch the guy come back next year complaining about all those spindly branches shooting straight up like some kind of green porcupine.
But hey, at least his tree won't be too tall for him to reach with his loppers.
Nature's gonna do what it wants anyway, we just get to watch the trainwreck from our front porches.
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rileyjones19d ago
Yeah @miller.jason called it, that tree's gonna look like a punk rocker's haircut next spring.
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