Tag: Crape Myrtle

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Design/build: Ornamental trees for landscaping
Discover how to use ornamental trees to create a focal point in a landscape, design natural privacy fences, or bring life to a small space.
May 9, 2019
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Keeping crape myrtle bark scale under control
Find out how to identify and control crape myrtle bark scale before your clients find their crape myrtles covered in sooty mold and scale. Details here.
April 18, 2019
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Continuing the crusade against crape murder, pick the right cultivars
Learn how to avoid 'Crape Murder' by choosing the right size crape myrtle and properly pruning it at the right time of the year, here, on Total Landscape Care.
February 6, 2019
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Finishing the year strong: Top 10 TLC stories from 2018
Finishing up Total Landscape Care’s look back on 2018, here are the top 10 stories during for 2018.
December 31, 2018
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TLC’s top 10 stories for February 2018
From skid steer buckets to red roses, take a look back at Total Landscape Care's top 10 articles from February 2018.
December 14, 2018
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How to: Restoring your clients’ crape myrtles after they’ve been murdered
The rule of thumb for pruning a crape myrtle is much like pruning any other plant, yet the “murdering” is often carried out in the belief that the plant will produce more blooms in spring.
February 20, 2018
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‘Crape murder’ continues, motivated by misinformation
Monkey see, monkey do, most people prune their crape myrtles wrong because everyone else is too. Here's what you really need to be doing. Read more on TLC!
February 6, 2017
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Instead of over-pruning, choose smaller trees to fit your site
Topping trees is ill-advised on many levels. Click for eight popular tree choices to suggest If your customer wants a tree in their small space.
November 16, 2016
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Choosing trees that provide seasonal interest in the fall and winter
Fall wouldn’t quite be the same if the deciduous trees didn’t participate in their act of transfiguration. Click to read more on some visually appealing picks.
October 5, 2016
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Landscape architects designing Veterans Honor Garden
The San Diego chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has volunteered to help design the Veterans Honor Garden at the Veterans Resource Center in Oceanside, California. Three members answered the nonprofit’s request for help in designing the garden. Landscape architects Joy Lyndes, Jacqueline Higgins and Richard Risner will work with the Veterans Association […]
September 18, 2015
The half-acre parcel of land will be converted into a veterans honor garden. Photo: Linda McIntosh/The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Tree Giveaway
The Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Tree Commission will give away more than 38,000 tree seedlings in this year’s annual tree giveaway, reports The Tuscaloosa News. Together with the Alabama Power Service Organization and the Druid City Canopy Coalition, the commission will offer varieties such as southern sugar maple, crape myrtle, dogwood, southern magnolia, white oak, live oak, redbud and dahoon holly.
February 19, 2013
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Caring for Crape Myrtles
It seems for every vibrantly blooming and well maintained example of Lagerstroemia indica adorning properties from Texas to Savannah, there is one with its limbs hacked off by the uninformed.
February 2, 2010
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