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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee
I prune to shape only. I have one overhanging my patio area and that is all the shade I have in the summer, so I am trying to get it tall and thick. This particular Myrtle is a white blossom Nachez with three trunks and it grows to about 30ft tall, so I have pruned off the lower branches and taken out a lot of the fine inner branches, leaving it to grow tall and shaped like an open umbrella. I have two others which are bushes, not trees. Those I just take out the fine inner branches to give the bush some shape. I sometimes take off the spent flower seed pods, but it is not necessary, and I never just cut the ends off the branches; and I never, ever, do a Crepe Murder hatchet job on them!
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If I may hijack for just a bit... Today I was walking out of Sam's to my car and passed a white crepe myrtle. It's branches were low enough to reach, and full of blooms, so I pulled one closer to sniff it (heavenly scent). From a car parked in front of the tree came an elderly guy's voice... "I smell just as good as that does!"
It takes so little to make someone's day! I'm still chuckling.