A crape myrtle should not be hedged like an evergreen. It is not an efficient way to prune a crape myrtle and may prevent it from flowering. – Submitted photo
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Thou shall not commit crape murder
There are many ways to trim crape myrtles, but not all of them are correct. I have seen crape myrtles gently thinned and trained like trees, clipped incorrectly to form a round ball, cut down to the ground to restart growth or had their all their top growth lopped off (aka crape murder).
