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Watch as one of our expert horticulturalists, ed laivo, as he shares tips and tricks to correctly prune the beautiful crape myrtle.
How to prune a crepe myrtle into a tree. Hand shears help with cutting smaller pieces of the tree, loppers help by removing slightly larger limbs, and the hand. Simply remove any extra stems protruding from the ground. Start with the branches coming up from the base.
A natural style of pruning will mostly address the limbs within the tree that may be keeping your crepe myrtle tree from putting on the best show it can. Want to see more southern living videos? Put the chainsaw away and only use hand shears, loppers, and a hand saw.
With proper pruning, any of our beautiful sizes and varieties can become a single stem plant. The goal is to get air ci. Cut off any unwanted suckers growing out of the roots or the base of the tree.
To prune crepe myrtle, rogers says to start with a pair of sharp pruning shears that you’ve wiped down with rubbing alcohol, rinsed and dried. Cut off suckers from the bottom, rubbing and cross growing branches and branches growing inward. Move next to all side branches growing from the main trunks up to a height of at least.
Selectively prune upper branches along each stem to shape a flowing, open canopy. Crepe myrtles make ideal feature trees for home gardens, because they’re compact in size, and respond well to pruning. Crepe myrtles should be pruned very early in the spring.
As the crapemyrtle grows, continue to remove lower. Pick the right tool for the pruning you want. Make pruning cuts for shaping, removing dead and damaged branches, and giving the plant structure.