How to Prune a Crape Myrtle

How to Prune a Crape Myrtle

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Today we're pruning a Crape myrtle. This Crape myrtle is covered by Spanish moss and it overhangs the sidewalk, sometimes too low. It gets its moss from a neighboring Sweetgum tree which is on city property. We're using a reciprocating saw today and some special pruning blades. I first remove some low limbs then climb up and get to work.
Crape myrtle is a fairly hard wood and even with the new blades it takes quite a bit of work to cut. The wood is hard and very flexible so it's rare to have one damaged during a storm.

I work the saw back and forth and it's dulling the blade quickly because the wood is so strong. I was able to climb the tree using the crotch of the limbs. At this point it felt very high up as I was about 20 to 25 feet in the air. Crape myrtles are not indigenous to America, they came here around the year 1790 in Charleston. 

And here we have our finished product! This looked like an art sculpture piece to us and we called it our "artwork". Two months later this is what it looked like and six months later it was in full bloom on top down. We hope you enjoyed this segment of cleaning up this Crape myrtle, please check out our other videos and like and subscribe. Thanks and keep it green!

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