To fix the lack of blooms on your crepe myrtle, you need to make sure that you give the tree the nutrients that it needs. Ideally, you want to look for a fairly balanced fertilizer with an NPK ...

White spots on your crepe myrtle tree may just look like light mold or lichen, but it may be a sign of a bigger issue that sinister and damaging. advertisement House Digest ...

A poorly pruned crepe myrtle tree can turn into an eyesore with twiggy growth and a lack of flowers. Follow this guide to keep your tree in tip-top shape.

A question for Dan Gill: My husband wants to plant crepe myrtle trees on the side of the house. I want them, but I do not want them to be How to pick the right crape myrtle tree.

Crape myrtles (Lagerstroemia species and hybrids) provide more summer color to our area than any other tree or shrub. Shrubs to small trees range in size from 5 to 30 feet and come in many colors.

I watched a gray catbird balance itself on the top of our crepe myrtle tree one day last week. It was clinging precariously to a flimsy stem (I can’t even call it a limb) as it stretched its … ...

Goldfinches accounted for 49 percent of all birds I observed extracting seeds from my crape myrtle; dark-eyed juncos 21 percent, house finches 18 percent, northern cardinals 11 percent and ...

Proper crape (or crepe) myrtle pruning How much to prune : Properly prune your crape myrtle by removing 25% of the crown, and no more than 30%, Moorman said. Anything over 30% is considered over ...

Circumstances when a crepe myrtle legitimately needs to be topped do exist, Files said, like keeping the tree from becoming entangled in power lines. Pruning a branch because it threatens someone ...

A small tree perfect for suburban gardens is Crepe Myrtle Lagerstroemia indica. Believed to have originated in China, it is a tree for all seasons. In summer it produces vibrant flowers, which ...

1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – From left, Warren Parker and Gerardo Gutierrez, Mountain Vista Communities landscapers, prepare to remove a crepe myrtle tree in preparation for relocation to ...