The neighbors might be pruning crape myrtle wrong ... Remove suckers from the base of the tree. This is the new growth that emerges from the roots, and you should snip them off.
CAROLINA FOREST, S.C. (WBTW) — A now-former science school teacher from New Jersey says many once-healthy tan crapemyrtle trees in her ... them is through the root system. And Dinotefuran ...