Q: We bought a ‘Biloxi’ crapemyrtle last fall. It has four stems and is seventeen feet tall. How should it be trimmed?

A: ‘Biloxi’ crapemyrtle has pretty lavender flowers and the exfoliating bark is beautiful in winter. It’s one of the larger crapemyrtles, eventually growing to twenty feet tall. If it were mine, I’d keep the four vertical trunks and prune away lower limbs up to eight feet. You can then allow the top limbs to grow however they wish without needing to prune them again.