Crepe murder

I was convinced my father was telling me to kill the damn trees.

What yer sposed to do is prune whole limbs at their bases (or start of fork if trimming a forked limb), to trim these back when needed. Amputating the limbs in the middle causes lots of little sprout limbs to come out of the stump, and makes it look shitty.

I don't like aggressive pruning but it's not done while they're in bloom. Mine is taking over the sidewalk so I need to do this, but it's also not flowering or even has leaves at the moment.

Crepe*

Moaning Myrtle.

Some friends unfortunate enough to live in a HOA would feel this in their souls lol.

Looks more like Crack Myrtle