Not much but all I have right now

My garden is looking pretty croppy (excuse the misspelling that should be an a instead of an o) Wink

So these are the prettiest scenes I could find.

This Crepe Myrtle tree was sheared off at ground level around 18 years ago by a speeding car that missed the curve in the street a couple of houses from us, veered across the neighbors yard and right across the tree. They had to get out and untangle the tree from their car, leaving apparently vital bits of the underside of the car stuck in the tree.
It is now over 20 feet tall, but that is a guess cause I am not climbing a ladder to measure it and is at least 5 feet taller than it's mate that wasn't sheared off.
They would both have more blooms but lost at least half of them to the winds we had last week from Gustav.

Out back the pink Morning Glories are still blooming, funny too cause I planted the purple Grampa Ott in that location last year Rolling Eyes

But I thought this was a pretty scene with the vine circling one of my water garden bowls

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"Blossom by blossom the spring begins."
Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909)

"A little Madness in the spring, is wholesome even for the King."
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Yep, those trees are gorgeous, thanks all. They are two different shades of pink, the second picture being the darker one. That large one is directly across the yard from the front window and door so the view in late summer to frost is really pretty.

Common practice here is a fall ritual called 'Crepe Murder' landscapers and home owners will strip the whole tree of every twig, branch and stem, leaving only the multi-trunks (and you should start doing this when the tree is really young so you can keep it down to a maximum of 5 trunks) then you cut the top of the tree off, straight across horizontal to the ground about 6 feet from the ground. In the spring they have a manicured tree with a few blooms on the top of a skeleton and you have to keep hiring someone to come out on a regular basis to keep the tree trunks stripped of twigs trying to grow naturally. I think it is a ploy of the landscapers/tree trimmers to provide themselves with a steady income cause they sure are not helping the trees.

_________________
"Blossom by blossom the spring begins."
Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909)

"A little Madness in the spring, is wholesome even for the King."
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)