So, instead of visions of sugar plums dancing, I am now dreaming of properly pruned crape myrtles. How to prune crape myrtle is always a popular subject whenever I make a presentation about ...

As you drive around the South, I challenge you to find a town without crepe myrtles. My town has planted white crepe myrtles along every main thoroughfare so that it looks like the trees are ...

The controversy I'm referring to is the pruning -- or shall I call it the annual butchering -- of crape myrtles. This happens almost like clockwork. I was speaking with a nursery friend of mine ...

Now, my neighbor’s lilacs and forsythia, and a shrub she calls flowering quince, are in full bloom and my crepe myrtles look like dead sticks! Is there something I didn’t do for them and now ...

Dear Neil: Why do named varieties of crape myrtles seem to disappear from nurseries? Two popular names from the past, Watermelon Red and Glendora White, are rarely available. As with most other ...