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Old 06-12-2012, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by graciegirl View Post
Apparently we trimmed them at the wrong time. Ours aren't blooming like our neighbors who did NOT trim them.

We have lilac colored ones. I love the watermelon colored ones.
When they arrived from Fairfield Farms, I had them dig hole deep enough for one bag of bark mulch, to hold the water. Apparently it worked good. Also fed them before covering up hole. But its what we wanted, two nice myrtle trees to look at from kitchen window. Dug up about a 160 sq ft of lawn, (full of bermuda anyway) and bagged each week for pick up on wednesday. I bet at least 30 bags when done. Put vinyl trim around and layed plastic, and then bark mulch. So now we are "Happy" Watermelon Red