By Harry Owens, horticulturist
There are horticultural atrocities taking place all over our city. I start noticing it in the winter along roadsides, in front of businesses, and even in neighbors’ yards. The offense is the seasonal decapitation of crepe myrtles ( Lagerstroemia sp .), a practice that I un-affectionately refer to as “crepe murder.”
Crepe myrtles were introduced to the United States around 1790 in Charleston, South Carolina and have...
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