Comments on: Stop Crape Murder: Don’t Cut Back Your Myrtles

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:01:42 +0000

I’m not lying, but we had a man who worked for the division of forestry who told us to prune them to four feet tall every February.

By: Williard Purell

Williard Purell — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:59:16 +0000

Thanks for this information. Not STUPID just uninformed. Maybe some more tips later please.
Looking forward to pretty CM’S>

By: Deni Deron

Deni Deron — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:30:31 +0000

This is a great article because I think so many people have been doing it for so long just because they think they’re suppose to. Clean your Crape Myrtles up a little, but don’t cut them back so much. This totally makes sense to me.

By: onyr

onyr — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:55:22 +0000

Wow, for all of the people who go and cut your crape myrtles back like those pictures… YOU ARE STUPID!! I use to work for a top notch landscaping company who did business for Sacred Heart, Sandy Sansing, and several other big names in Pensacola and let me tell you know that is the exact opposite way to prune the trees. When pruning the trees you only need to remove the small twigs, branches that are dead or covered with fungus, the branches that cross each other forming an X (only take out the one that does NOT point upwards or at about a 45 degree angle), and trim about 8-12 inches off of the top of the tree to give it a flat top look. The tree will grow all of this back the following year and it will still flower a tremendous amount.