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re: Crepe Myrtles in front of my house

Posted on 5/6/16 at 11:07 am to
Posted by CidCock
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Posted on 5/6/16 at 11:07 am to

Posted by burdman
Louisiana
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Posted on 5/6/16 at 11:10 am to
Definitely keep the oak
Posted by airfernando
Member since Oct 2015
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Posted on 5/6/16 at 11:16 am to
I've been cutting a lot of my oaks bc of the grass issues and also bc I'm tired of cutting around them. I've had a few large and several small oaks.

What color blooms do the crepe myrtles have? They definitely need to be thinned. White cm's develop into nice umbrella shapes, provide shade, but don't kill the grass

pink and red cm's have very nice blooms. Pinks look better when kept semi small but reds look better when kept at medium size.
Posted by DawgGONIT
Member since May 2015
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Posted on 5/6/16 at 11:22 am to
If you do take that big tree out, you probably still won't get enough sun light (depends) to properly grow them. Plus your yard isn't that big, so it would be best to just sod it up. Although, you may be able to put them in the back yard or something.

Crepe Myrtles are bad arse and they are very abundant where I live. In fact I just saw a guy the other day trying to cut grass under one with his riding mower. Dude got trapped under the limb and his mower kept going. He was getting pushed back in his seat, but I was already driving by and didn't see how it played out.
Posted by SuperSaint
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Posted on 5/6/16 at 11:25 am to
quote:

The crepe myrtles look a heck of a lot better than when I bought the house



Good god, I'd have hate to have seen them before
Posted by mizzoukills
Member since Aug 2011
40686 posts
Posted on 5/6/16 at 11:29 am to
The crepe myrtles would look great if you just trimmed them down to about half their current height to allow them to fill in and perhaps planted some ornamental grasses around them and along the road to create a barrier between the road and your property. Crepe myrtles bloom in the late spring to early summer and will look great.

Why would anyone cut shade trees down. Just plant Bermuda grass under the trees or landscape around the trees with more ornamental grasses and ground cover plants.

The key to making grass grow is water. Just simply water your lawn every day, bruh.

Don't be a retard.
Posted by TimWhatleyDDS
Member since Sep 2014
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Posted on 5/6/16 at 1:02 pm to
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