Good container plantings require little maintenance aside from watering and can enhance your home through the spring, summer, and fall. With over 1, different species, Begonias family Begoniaceae is the fifth most diverse class of plants. Is your forsythia starting to bloom for Christmas?
Here's why some plants flower during warm winter days. Cart 0. Prune off spent flowers on crape myrtle like this. The Latest on Boxwood Blight.
Train these trunks to grow upward and outward from the base of the plant. As they grow taller, gradually remove all side branches up to a height of four to five feet. This exposes the smooth, handsome bark. Early each spring, remove weak, spindly growth and all the branches that are growing in toward the center of the plant.
Prune large branches back to a crotch. Never leave thick stubs. Remove branches that are too close together or that cross or rub each other. It is important not to prune the tops of crepe myrtle trees to make them bloom. Topping may yield larger flowers but does not increase the overall volume of blooms. Extreme topping often results in weak growth that tends to bend of break in summer rains. Houseflies are the dumbest living things on Earth, literally incapable of learning anything, which makes me wonder sometimes if houseflies equipped with pruners have been savaging our neighborhood's crepe myrtles.
No matter how many times I tell folks not to chop their crepe myrtles into big, ugly stumps each spring, they do it anyway, maiming the beautiful trunks and ruining the natural treelike form. But perhaps "crepe murder" is a matter of taste, not intelligence.
If so, here is a pruning task everyone can agree on. You know how a crepe myrtle typically sprouts a thicket of suckers at the base each spring? Reach down now, and pull them off at ground level. That will keep your crepe myrtle from turning into a thick, unkempt shrub. It will also prove to the world that you're not a housefly.
For most of us, that's a good thing. Select these trees while they are in bloom. Remember, they can vary greatly in size and bloom colors. Choose the right size for your landscape to help avoid the ultimate Southern gardening sin, "crepe murder" severely pruning your tree to just a few sticks and ruining its natural form.
Large selections more than 20 feet tall include 'Natchez' white and 'Miami' pink. Medium selections less than 20 feet tall include 'Near East' pink and 'Regal Red' deep red. Dwarf forms less than 3 feet tall include 'Centennial' purple and 'Chickasaw' pink. Select a sunny location, and remember to mulch and water well to ease your tree into the landscape. Container-grown trees are easy to transport and transition into the garden well. When people think of crepe myrtles, they envision warm summer days and pink, red, lavender, and white flower clusters sagging in the sun.
But look at these classic trees in fall, and you might be surprised. Brilliant blooms will be replaced by orange, red, and yellow foliage for an outstanding autumn show. Crepe myrtles have rounded, light green leaves that emerge in the spring. As the weather warms, the foliage hardens off and turns dark green.
Then, when the temperatures drop in the fall, leaves gradually transform from green to sparkling fall hues. Many gardeners select crepe myrtles by bloom colors, but you can also choose a plant by its fall foliage see chart below. Now is the perfect time to plant these beautiful trees, which come in many colors and sizes to fit your needs and space.
These can be planted in tight areas where you want a tree but have little space. Medium ones, such as 'Centennial Spirit,' 'Tuskegee,' and 'Yuma,' grow 15 to 20 feet tall and work well around sidewalks and terraces but can still be planted close to the house. Big crepe myrtles, such as 'Dynamite,' 'Natchez,' and 'Tuscarora,' will grow 20 feet or more.
They make excellent street trees and can be used in large yards. Crapemyrtles transplant very well! If cut in the same place each year, the plants develop a knob on the end which is particularly unsightly in the winter.
While the trees are young, the tips of the small limbs can be pruned off again only those a pencil width diameter or less. Here are a few images of correct and incorrect pruning. And if you are in the market for a crepe myrtle, remember that they come in all sizes and bloom colors.
Come see us and we will help you find the one that works best in your space so you can avoid crape murder! This is the correct way to prune a crapemyrtle! Notice that the horticulturist is taking off only low limbs that are small in diameter, while leaving the large trunks in place.
Receive timely tips, sales, events and education program information. During summer, their colorful flowers, attractive bark and beautiful shape make them among our most valuable landscape plants. Please appreciate this — and stop the unfortunate trend of hacking them back.
Pictured top: Crape myrtle trees do not need pruning for new growth. Pictured below: These Crape myrtles were ruined with unnecessary topping. Submitted photos for NorthEscambia. I planted two Lagerstroemia Tuscarora Multi last summer. They were about 5 ft tall.
So I cut the dead branches back and let the suckers grow and bloom etc. I was going to just thin out the suckers and see if I could make it look like a tree again. Any advice?. Sprayed them with copper fungicide after they started blooming should be done just before blooming as I found out to late. Can they be saved? Have 16 trees and all are looking bad.
What to do? Much Thanks Larry Weeks. I had a old very tall CM.. The extreme freeze we had this winter all but killed it.
It had the most beautiful egg shape covered in blooms. New growth has began perhaps 3 feet tall. How do i remove dead dome to get the same shape as before? I would guess the CM to be 15 plus years old maybe 20 feet tall at point.. I have a beautiful acoma weeping myrtle that is beautiful and healthy. It is cut back every two or three years. It was cut this March, it is full and weeping beautifully.
It has thousands of starting to bloom white flowers. I have always cut trees back that was struggling to perform. It has worked great for me all of my trees and shrubs are beautiful. I fight the mites every year. They turn the leaves black and I cringe every time I have to mix up pesticides to put around the tree.
What causes them to attack the trees? I then have a infestation of flies feeding on the mites. We have several Crape Myrtle trees, in Southern California. They have always bloomed beautifully, but this year there are hardly any blooms and some of the trees have no blooms. I think they are about 15 years old. Should we feed them something? Any help would be appreciated. Moved to new home in Alabama and have several Crape Myrtles that have not been taken care of in along time.
I have a beautiful myrtle already matured but looks more like a bush. Would like to trim branches at bottom to shape it more like a tree. A small.
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