Crepe*
Crap, not again!
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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officermike@lemmy.world 1 year ago
piconaut@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m a creeeeeepe, I’m a Myrtle
Fourth@mander.xyz 1 year ago
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
I was convinced my father was telling me to kill the damn trees.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year 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 1 year ago
Doesn’t matter when it’s done. It’s bad for the tree.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
I don’t print like this.
FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 1 year ago
Some friends unfortunate enough to live in a HOA would feel this in their souls lol.
CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Moaning Myrtle.
FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 1 year ago
Well done.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Looks more like Crack Myrtle
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Crepe murder
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Sounds like something a cereal killer would do