Appalachian Home Furnishings-Crape Myrtle Renovation

This is a 3 year old (very nice) furniture/accessory store in Jasper, GA. The 3 year old Crape Myrtles were killed back by severe cold 2 winters ago--they regenerated mostly from sucker growth and my goal was to re-form them into trees again. It was a pretty brutal pruning job, but I was able to get them pretty well cleaned up and ready to "start over" this summer. Before and after shots below: