Tall types exceed 20 feet in height. If you think that's not possible, look at Muskogee or Red Rocket. If those don't ...

Crape myrtles are common landscape plants. In today’s article, Gary Knox, a horticulture professor with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, answers common ...

Crape myrtle, known as the lilac of the South, is one of the most popular landscape plants in the Southeast. And rightfully so because they are easy to grow and create landscape interest year-round.

Tree-form crape myrtles that had been 15 or 20 feet tall were almost killed by the cold. Landscapers cut them back to within 2 inches of the soil line, and by first frost last fall they had ...

Crape myrtle seed easy to plant. Life | Oct 24, 2012. By Walter Reeves. Listen to Walter Reeves Saturday mornings on AM 750 and 95.5 FM News-Talk WSB.

MacCubbin gives Florida gardening advice about crape myrtles, summer vegetables, lemon trees, tomato plants, indoor palms and lawn care ...

Crape myrtles (Lagerstroemia sp) are among the toughest and showiest plants for Texas landscapes. Introduced from China, crape myrtles have been grown in the U.S. since the American Revolution and ...

Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin gives advice on gardening in Florida, including care of crape myrtles, cyclamens, poinsettias, plumeria and much more ...

Please. No ties or cologne for dad on Father's Day. Get him one of the new generation crape myrtles. They are absurdly easy to grow, bloom through early fall and look great in virtually any garden ...

Crape myrtle is a quintessential South Carolina plant. In fact, the first crape myrtles to ever to be planted in the western hemisphere were introduced by Andre Michaux into Goose Creek, South ...

Like watermelon and homemade ice cream, the blooming of the crepe myrtle signals summertime in Montgomery County. Across the South, the crepe myrtle is there to add its colorful beauty and ...

I believe that one of the reasons why people commit crape murder or hacking is because it's easier and maybe it is easier on a crape myrtle that's 40 feet tall.