Beginner Gardening: Show us your yard!!!!!!!!!!!, 1 by delphiniumdiva

delphiniumdiva wrote:
sweezel your garden and house are both gorgeous!!!! Thanks for sharing the pics! Don't pick on your Bradford Pear - its lovely! And seeing your abelia makes me want one - all pruned up like that. Usually one sees them flopping all over - I love your combination of formal shrubs with more casual perennials. Great contrast.

Q: I have a perennial bed with a crepe myrtle in it much like yours. However, my cm has gotten so large that its shading out the entire bed! I'm thinking of pollarding it next year, or should I thin it out? I know some people think pollarding is a crime, but...it's pretty darn big - a Natchez white. Shouldn't have planted it there in the first place I guess. What do you think? What will you do with yours?