I walked down to the shed, but on the way something caught my eye. I gazed in surprised wonder at the newly planted crape myrtles. Two of them were showing signs of severe distress, with branches cracked and broken and some even torn off and missing. There was definitely something wrong here, I theorized that mayhem like this does not occur spontaneously and there must have been some interference with the fledgling plants. But what could it be? Was there some kind of deranged crape myrtle...
