Gardening & Landscaping
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
~NB~ (and everyone else) Crepe Myrtles
I saw your other post about the the abuse of Crepe Myrtle pruning. I hate it. HATE it! There is a house in my neighborhood that had goregous Crepe Myrtles. I always loved driving by the house and seeing them in bloom. Now there are new homeowners and each year they whack back the tops of the trees. The trees are pretty mature (I'm thinking at least 7-8 yrs old) and they look horrid in the summer.
It makes me want to cry. 
I've never topped my Crepe Myrtle. I only remove the suckers from the base of the tree and the old seedpods. Occasionally, I remove smaller limbs that inch over the walkway, but that's about it.
I don't know why people think it's ok to whack these trees to death. How in the world did that practice start?
"There's a very simple test to see if something is racist. Just go to a heavily populated black area, and do the thing that you think isn't racist, and see if you live through it." ~ Reeve on the Clearly Racist Re-Nig Bumper Sticker and its Creator.
Re: ~NB~ (and everyone else) Crepe Myrtles
Good question; I don't know. I think most of it happens because people tend to follow example. Pretty much like mulch volcanoes....
I recently had a booking from one of last years design clients, to whom I had recommended pruning of a large Crape. Well, she didn't hire me to do that, she hired me for something else, and "pruned" the tree herself before I arrived.
I didn't take any pictures, but I'm sure you can image what I saw. When she solicited by opinion, and I expressed sympathy for the vandalism to her property.
Oh my lord! The people around the corner from us did that and I couldn't figure out why. It looks horrible now. I can't imagine that it will look much better in the summer. Is it supposed to improve growth or something?
<giggle snort>