When I was 12, my parents bought two Muskogees. They lived at that house for nearly 24 years and the trees were phenomenally beautiful and big; taller than the two-story home. I cried when the new homeowner had them chainsawed like telephone poles. Totally destroyed their forms. Now that I am a homeowner, I added two Muskogees to my yard and love them dearly. They are my all-time favorite four-season tree.
Beautiful tree great video. I had never heard of these trees and when I did after researching I have bought around 12 so far different colors reason because I cut 3 pine trees and 4 mesquite trees that got too tall and dangerous for neighbors and my house and dangerous to cut had to pay expensive to cut them. So now I am picky and crape myrtle tree is perfect provides shade perfect height and a plus it blooms.
Clean your crooks, if your Muskogee grows large it develops pockets where large branches offshoot off the trunk......this is where gunk and debris get stuck. Use a garden hose and flush out the gunk with clean water or it will start to rot. My Muskogee is the pinnacle of all my crepes I have, it is a parent tree of many offspring I transplant around the house. The bees love visiting it even though I think it gives a trace of nectar, but they still like to visit it again and again.
We planted at Muskogee last June. My question is about how to tell the difference between the suckers you reference and a natural additional trunk or two? Our tree is only about 7 feet tall at this point with minimal blooming last year. We live in Zone 8 in Washington state. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Any of the suckers can be allowed to remain to form additional trunks. Any suckers you want to remove are best removed while still in new growth softwood stage, but you can prune them as hardened stems too.
When I was 12, my parents bought two Muskogees. They lived at that house for nearly 24 years and the trees were phenomenally beautiful and big; taller than the two-story home. I cried when the new homeowner had them chainsawed like telephone poles. Totally destroyed their forms. Now that I am a homeowner, I added two Muskogees to my yard and love them dearly. They are my all-time favorite four-season tree.
Beautiful tree great video. I had never heard of these trees and when I did after researching I have bought around 12 so far different colors reason because I cut 3 pine trees and 4 mesquite trees that got too tall and dangerous for neighbors and my house and dangerous to cut had to pay expensive to cut them. So now I am picky and crape myrtle tree is perfect provides shade perfect height and a plus it blooms.
Very interesting plants. 👍 🙂
Wow!!! This is exactly what I needed to see! Just bought my first, it had a tag but no visual representation
Thank you for this!
Eb Rhode Island
So glad the video was helpful to you!
Nice video i am going to plant crape myrtle in my garden and alonng the street these crape myrtles are really beautiful
Beautiful flowers
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Clean your crooks, if your Muskogee grows large it develops pockets where large branches offshoot off the trunk......this is where gunk and debris get stuck. Use a garden hose and flush out the gunk with clean water or it will start to rot.
My Muskogee is the pinnacle of all my crepes I have, it is a parent tree of many offspring I transplant around the house.
The bees love visiting it even though I think it gives a trace of nectar, but they still like to visit it again and again.
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We planted at Muskogee last June. My question is about how to tell the difference between the suckers you reference and a natural additional trunk or two? Our tree is only about 7 feet tall at this point with minimal blooming last year. We live in Zone 8 in Washington state. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Any of the suckers can be allowed to remain to form additional trunks. Any suckers you want to remove are best removed while still in new growth softwood stage, but you can prune them as hardened stems too.