As a Master Gardener in Brunswick Cty (I teach pruning)I appreciate your emphasis on proper pruning techniques, using the correct tools and putting the right plant in the right place. We need more videos like this from industry pros. Good job!

This is the BEST instructional video I have ever seen for crape myrtle pruning. Thank You for this thorough information!

The Best tutorial I have ever seen on trimming crepe myrtles!!

Great information. I wish I had known this years ago before I planted crape myrtles at the front of my house. This video is a must share. Thank you.

Her yard is massive!!! love it!!!

I just bought my first crape myrtle, a black diamond! I'm so excited, and am so grateful for this video!

Jenny, thank you for speaking on the term, "Crepe Murder". I really wish people would STOP murdering their Crepe Myrtles. As a southern bell raised VERY near Natchez Mississippi & surrounded by these property trimmed beauties, I very quickly grew to love them. They are EVERYWHERE & SO beautiful when cut correctly. It's so sad to me when I see a Crepe Murder. BTW, I live in Georgia & have 23 year old White NATCHEZ Crepe Myrtles in my yard. They are huge & majestic! I trim them later winter myself. Also to insure it's done correctly. No Crepe Murder here! ❤

Thanks, Jenny♥️. This was extremely helpful. The pruning process really helps the crepe myrtle look more attractive! Blessings for the upcoming spring season!♥️

Creekside does an amazing job with showing us how to maintain larger shrubs and trees that not many youtubers do. As a side note, if anyone is having trouble understanding the pruning technique (like i did) u can check out linda vater, she does the exact same method of shrubs and small topiaries and it was a blessing for me to figure out exactly how to do it from creekside in tree form and linda in shrub form. Much love to u both

Thank you for sharing! This was by far the most informative video on pruning my crepe myrtle!

No Crepe Murder! It's always amazing to see all the landscapers doing it..

I have to agree with the others, this was absolutely THE best video I've seen on pruning. So clear! Thank you

My neighbors cut theirs off every year so they have nubs. They look pretty bad after several years pruning like that. Here in California people do the same thing to their Mulberry trees. They look terrible. Thanks for showing people how to prune them.

Great Video!!! Being a New Yorker moved to the south I had NO IDEA what to do with my Crape Myrtle! Thanks!

Jenny, love ya! Upon illustrations are good and your humor is so natural. Thanks again for sharing….

We've lived in the south for a while now, and I always wondered what those trees with the big knobs on top were 😳 now I know it's a bad crepe myrtle prune job! I recently bought a dwarf crepe myrtle for my backyard that only gets 3 ft tall. I'm so excited to see it grow!

Looks so much better. Great job and great tips. Now I know how to prune mine. I learned so much from this video!!!

This video was so helpful to me! Thank you😊 Years ago I planted 4 crape myrtles right in front of my house. I had no idea what I was doing-I don’t know if I got the right variety for the space-thus the reason I feel so unsure every year of how to prune. I have made the mistake of cutting straight across-it seems to have worked to keep them on the smaller side-but your so right; it really creates all those shooters that I have to clean up throughout the blooming season.

Nice presentation. Very informative. Thank you!

I found and subscribed to this channel after searching for a recent video on pruning crape myrtles. This is my first time having to prune mine after getting it very young last year. I've never taken care of a tree this young so I was curious about it. Great information and demo! ☺

I have crepe myrtles all around my house. We love them here in KY. I didn’t know how to prune them at all. Thank you for this wonderful video. Love all your videos 🥰

Best pruning video I've found! Just about everyone in my neighborhood in AL murders their crape myrtles. Mine is about 5 years old and was very bushy (and had finally started growing tall) but it now looks like a tree. I know it's a little late to be cutting on it but next year I'm hoping it will begin to look fabulous! Thank you so much!!

Awesome video! Thank you for the great info.

Great video, I went from knowing nothing to something real quick, thank you!!

Great video and very informative. I have been pruning some of my trees in to bushes for years now. I like them both as trees and shorter bushes it just depends on the location and the overall look I'm going for.

Thank you! So happy I found this prior to trimming mine

Hi, Jenny, I'm also NC 7b and I'm so glad Laura from Garden Answer featured you on her Highlights channel. Thank you for this video. I look forward to learning more about southern plantings and such. ❤

Fantastic info and instruction. Now I understand . thank you.

Jerry, more amazing lawns!! Love it.

New subscriber from Laura’s channel. Thank you for this video on when & how to prune crepe myrtles. Yes, I felt like my gardener was murdering my myrtles and told home to stop. Also to quit making them look like lollipops lol.

Thank you so much for this video. I have some crape myrtles that needed some help and this is just the information that I needed.

So in late winter here too in Oz 🙌thanks Jenny my favourites are Crape Myrtles 😻🧤👒🦘🐨🇦🇺

Thank you for this video, moved to NC and just bought a house with a crepe myrtle about 6 feet from the corner of the house and approximately20 feet tall. Needs pruning. I will be following your advice, and buying new appropriate tools for the job. Can't wait to see it in bloom.

Thank you for this video, it gives me proper clipping for my tree.

She's so cute when she's "fighting the tree"! 😆 That's REAL gardening. Thanks for the great info!

Extremely helpful. Thank You!!

Nicely done! informative and entertaining! My only suggestion is to point out that your clippers and lopping shears are bypass pruners and to sanitize your tools prior to pruning to avoid any cross contamination. But, well done! As a professional landscape designer and nursery pro,I am constantly having to teach my clients NOT to pollard crape myrtles ( and, sadly, Japanese maples).

Nice instructional video and thanks for advocating a stop to crape murder. I hate to see them all chopped up and knobby. I especially enjoyed the lopper technique. I use the same two hands on one handle with the second handle pressed against the belly.

Very good video, helpful and informative. am thankful for someone who really knows and gives the truth. Love it

Suggestion, always shoot digital with the sun to your back . You won’t have glare like you are having. Love the channel.

Thank you, Thank YOU, THANK YOU!!!!! great video. I live in 7B and so many people just Murder crepe myrtles and it takes years for them to look decent.

Looks so neat afterwards!

So marvelous! Thank God for you..❤️

Awesome information. Loved this video

So glad I stumbled on this video. Because I now know how to prune mine! Yea!

Good job! Looks much better.

Very informative! My kind of teaching. I processed it well. Thank you

Great thanks so much

Thank you for all the great info on proper pruning. I had a BAD BAD landscaper who did my first plantings when my house was first build. He bought completely the wrong style crape and planted them next to the house. I'm in GA and have had to physically snatch the shears away from people who wanted to "tell" me the "correct" way to prune crapes. OMG... My poor mother was one of them (she had no idea). In mothers defense she instructed the landscaper to buy a smaller shrub variety and he bought the MEGA tree version. LOL. Every season, I have had landscapers pull in my driveway and tell me I need to top those trees back to bushes. UGH... I hate crape murder. I love them as natural trees. So fast forward 15 years... no one touches my landscaping anymore but me. So much was done wrong, anyway... I have 2 of the nachez crape myrtles 12 feet from the front corner of the house on both sides. One is up in the power line coming into the house. Both are draping onto the house. Do you have any recommendations of the best place to look for info on trimming a Crape canopy properly without topping the trees. Its a bit past hand shears and loppers. We are into ladders & pole saws now. I want to try to deal with some of the lower branches that have become so heavy with blooms they sag. Do I have to go all the way to base of the tree to trim them or to a joint in the limb? Is their any danger to limbs that touch the house? like conducting lightening strikes. I have been told alot, but don't want to murder and amputate unnecessarily.

Good job honey, my 100 lb dog liked the whistling, Thank's for the vid.

Great video I'm so glad you and your family have done so good, your place is beautiful. I have been growing Leyland cypress a few miles from you for 20+ years, keep up all the good work.

Love this video and Grumpy

Very good information and examples. Love it

Beautiful pruning job!

Very helpful video. Thanks!

Thank you I live in nc and I need to cut mine trees. This video helps a ton!

thanks for information on correct way to prune.

Thank you for the video! Enjoyed it.

Great video! Thank you! I am in California where I have 8 Myrtles and am thinking of adding more right near the house. I was considering adding some more Natchez by the house, but I will rethink it now that I saw your advice on that. Thanks again :)

Thank you so much! Your video is very informative on pruning. I’ve personally never chopped mine in the past but have seen some that do and always wondered if this was correct. Recently bought a house and the owner murdered all 10 of the crape Myrtles up the drive and I thought why? I’ve cleared all the suckers and they’re looking really good. I told all my crape myrtles that they would never be chopped/murdered like that again! Lol!

😂 so funny! And very informative - I hate crape murder! All landscapers should watch this and implement!!! I also enjoy Grumpy’s articles ☺️

I can’t wait to prune my trees now. I feel very informed on what to do! Thank you!

Great vid. Very informative! Thank you.

Please do more pruning videos I really want to know how to prune EVERY pant

I saw this just in the knick of time! I plan to trim my crepe myrtle this week. Yes, I know I'm late by Florida standards but we've had a wickedly cold winter (for us).

Thank you for the great tips!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I truly hate to see people whack off the tops of any trees! 💚

This very informative! I was going to have at my tree in a few days. I'll wait. I have a lot of work to do on mine. Thank you!

You are so cool. My crape myrtle looks like the one you trimmed. I know you want to come to Florida and make mine look purdy.

very very beautiful~~!! thank you for video😀

This is so helpful. Thank you!

Great video and demonstration.

Very helpful. Had new Crepe myrtles put in last fall when we moved her to north AL - probably about 8ft tall now and need cleaned up - may have a few more added this fall :)

Thank you your video was so helpful.

Great teaching & presentation!

Wow Jenny thank you!!

I can no longer count the number of Crepe Murders that have been committed in my area - and it's not done by the homeowner, it's been committed by so called landscape services. The same sort of unprofessional services that offer tree topping (a great way to destroy a tree). Good presentation on how to properly train and restrain the growth of these tough, beautiful plants. One tip: when you use hand pruners, it's a good idea to wear a work glove on the hand that is holding the branch to be cut. It's very easy to get those pruners too close to those fingers - I've done it, and learned my lesson!

Thanks for the info, I have 3 that has never been pruned & they are about 8-10 years old .. I’m surprised they still bloom ! Lol 😳😳😳

Many folks make the mistake of planting trees, and schrubs too close to a structure/house whetever. Thanks for talking about that.

Great Advice ! Thank you 😊

Very helpful video!! Thank you!

Good tutorial, Thanks

Great video!! 👍🏼

Great information. Thanks!!!

Thanks! My mother has one that hasn't been trimmed in geez.... 10 years or so. Im about to hop to it. Northwest Mississippi area.

Thank you so much!!I just recently move to my new property here on Texas and I have 8 of those hahaha . I just whanted to see how to before messing one of them up. They really need some maintenance.

Agreed. We have a beauty in our yard, wisely pruned of course. :) Best shade tree for a modest yard indeed.☀️

This was a great vidio, thank you 😊

Very helpful. Thank you

I wish my nurseries had transparent views on their product. I have gone to 3 nursery very large size and they all said same thing. You can keep any myrtle any size you want. I specifically mentioned “crape murder” and they looked confused. 😢. The guy said no that’s not true 😅. So now at least I know I can’t depend on their advice without checking everything twice. Lol. Thank you for the video

Thanks for this.

Got it! Thanks Jennie!

This is awesome! I have the part about how crape myrtles should not look down pat it seems. All you have to do is look at my crape myrtles LOL.. thanks for the odd number truck advice. Looks like I'll have to let one or two of those suckers grow into a trunk on a few of my trees.

Thank you very much!! Great video!! 💖

I have left my crepe myrtle alone and it is gorgeous

Just exactly the information I was looking for. Thank you

I purchased a 4 foot tall Natchez and planted it early spring and it has a strong single trunk and then it branches off a lot. I did cut a little off of some of the leggy long branches and it's blooming nicely this summer. Can't wait to prune it up this winter for next season. I planted about 7 feet away from a window that gets direct sun exposure all day - and am hoping for some shade in the next few years. Praying I picked the right spot. Thanks for the tutorial!

Great video

Thanks for sharing👍👍♥️

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I hate to see the way so many people "murder" their Crepe Myrtles.