Crepe*
Crap, not again!
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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officermike@lemmy.world 2 months ago
piconaut@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m a creeeeeepe, I’m a Myrtle
Fourth@mander.xyz 2 months ago
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What yer sposed to do is prune whole limbs at their bases (or start of fork if trimming a forked limb), to trim these back when needed. Amputating the limbs in the middle causes lots of little sprout limbs to come out of the stump, and makes it look shitty.
Erasmus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please tell that to every old person in my town. They think the ‘trimmed’ picture is how trees are supposed to naturally exist. Its so crazy.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s how it was taught back in the day. My BIL was a landscape architect. He learned that method in college.
RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I was convinced my father was telling me to kill the damn trees.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
I don’t like aggressive pruning but it’s not done while they’re in bloom. Mine is taking over the sidewalk so I need to do this, but it’s also not flowering or even has leaves at the moment.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Doesn’t matter when it’s done. It’s bad for the tree.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Not saying it’s bad or not, it’s just a bad comparison. It’s implying it looks like crap, but the alternative is not what’s on the left. The alternative is what’s on the left with no blooms or leaves.
a1tsca13@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You don’t need to do this. If properly pruned, crape myrtles will form a canopy over the sidewalk that doesn’t interfere with pedestrians and actually provides shade; if topped like the picture, they will form an unruly mass of growth right at head height.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
I don’t print like this.
FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 2 months ago
Some friends unfortunate enough to live in a HOA would feel this in their souls lol.
CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Moaning Myrtle.
FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 2 months ago
Well done.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Looks more like Crack Myrtle
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Crepe murder
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Sounds like something a cereal killer would do