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Recommendation for front yard crape myrtle replacement
Comments (4)There are certainly a ton of Japanese Maple to choose from. Not sure if your looking for any particular colors, but Sango Kaku is pretty awesome. Has bright red bark. Harder to find, but Summer Gold is very unique as well. Said to hold it's gold color all summer, even in full sun. Another interesting tree is Summer Chocolate Mimosa Tree. I saw this in person for the first time this year and it was excellent....See MoreHave: Pink Crape Myrtle, Dogwood, and White Crape Myrtle
Comments (0)I have PLENTY of Dogwood seeds and Pink and White Crape Myrtles. Looking for anything for zone 7 really, but mostly interested in unique flowers and trees/shrubs for my new property. Thanks! Deborah...See MoreDamaged (baby) Crape Myrtles - Cut down? Leave alone? Replace?
Comments (0)Hello... I live in the desert and have two young crape myrtles in my yard. They are bred to grow in the desert. They got to about knee-high before they went dormant last year. While dormant, in mid-January, my new puppy dog got a hold of them and mauled them pretty well. One, the pink velour, was hurt so bad and I clipped about 4 inches off the vertical branch-trunks and removed all lateral branches. The other, the red rocket, was chewed pretty bad and had to be cut down to 3-7 inches depending the extent of the damage on each branch-trunk. I know from basic studies that if a branch is cut at the end, because branches extend from their ends, it will cease to continue growing. I am concerned that these crape myrtles will not gain very much more height due to the ends of their branches being cut and will, instead, grow out and have a complicated branch system. I have three options, leave them be and let nature take its course, while hoping the trees end up growing correctly; replace them, since they're still under warranty; or cut them down to the root ball and let new suckers form to create new trunks while they're still young. (The plants are under one year old.) Looking at the plants, and hoping you know a lot about crape myrtles, which option would you choose if you were looking for height AND fullness? Thanks. Image link:...See MoreDeodar cedar as speciman tree in yard?
Comments (14)hairmetal: I wouldn't rule out "decline or removal due to non-hardiness related factors" as the reason for so few large cedars in the DC area. For example I remember a big one on Trap Rd. or thereabouts in Vienna, VA. At some point in the mid to late 00s, the last time I drove through that part of Fairfax County, I noticed it had been cut down. It was along the road, by a house that was close to the road, and I suspect either the utility or the owner decided it was just dominating the lot and the power lines too much. As I've noted about hollies, large, dark trees for some reason scare some homeowners. Elsewhere there was a huge Cedar of the Atlas or Lebanon pursuasion...I could not be sure. It's the one I posted a picture of a while ago. It seems ot have some kind of foliar disease or decline. Maybe caused by soil compaction, herbicide damage or whatnot. I was aware of that tree and it was definitely not damaged in 1994, cause I did landscaping the following summer and I remember seeing it. But yes, the winters of the late 70s, mid 80s and 1994 could have weeded some more tender strains of deodara out....See More- 7 years ago
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