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Crap, not again!
Submitted 5 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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officermike@lemmy.world 5 days ago
piconaut@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I’m a creeeeeepe, I’m a Myrtle
Fourth@mander.xyz 5 days ago
str82L@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Both spellings are acceptable.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago
I was convinced my father was telling me to kill the damn trees.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 days 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 5 days ago
Doesn’t matter when it’s done. It’s bad for the tree.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago
I don’t print like this.
FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 4 days ago
Some friends unfortunate enough to live in a HOA would feel this in their souls lol.
CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Moaning Myrtle.
FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 4 days ago
Well done.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Looks more like Crack Myrtle
grue@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Crepe murder
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Sounds like something a cereal killer would do