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Jun 24, 2023 12:02 PM CST
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Name: Janie
North Texas (Zone 8b)
Plants, birds & butterflies feed me
Butterflies Region: Texas Birds
Hello, All!
I'm in zone 8, Collin County. I could use some advice from other Texas gardeners!
My house has two front flowerbeds, each "anchored" by a beautiful 25'-30' crape myrtle. The beds are well-maintained, nicely mulched, and the sunnier one is mostly devoted to daylilies. The mulch makes it easy to control weeds, even nut sedge—new weeds are easy to pull out, roots and all.
Crape myrtle roots, though, are an ongoing problem. They run through the flowerbed under the soil and mulch, and send up clusters of baby crape myrtles constantly. Sighing!
If you've experienced this problem, how is the best way you've found to eliminate or control those shoots?
TYIA for any ideas!
“ There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein
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Jun 26, 2023 5:39 AM CST
Name: stone
near Macon Georgia (USA) (Zone 8a)
Garden Sages Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Plant Identifier
Yup... crape myrtle are certainly weedy.
Most of us just clip the suckers when we're pulling the other plants that we'd prefer not to have there.
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Jun 27, 2023 10:46 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Janie
North Texas (Zone 8b)
Plants, birds & butterflies feed me
Butterflies Region: Texas Birds
Thank you, Stone! Thank You!
“ There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein
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