My husband wants to plant crape myrtle trees on the side of the house. We live on a corner lot and this will be nice curb appeal with the proper up lighting. However, I see crape myrtles that grow ...

Crape myrtles have put on their dazzling display lately, but crape myrtles are a flowering tree that needs care.

Now’s the time of year you’re most likely to see naked crape myrtle trees, the unfortunate consequence of improper wintertime pruning. The practice has even been given a not-so-affectionate ...

"To keep your crepe myrtle looking more like a tree (and less like a big shrub), trim off the lower branches from the main trunks up to about 5 feet high," Kaiser stated. You can go higher for ...

Something is eating the impatiens on one side of my planter, while the impatiens on the other side is doing fine. What can I ...

OPINION. How to ruin a crape myrtle tree. July 23, 2023 at 1:47 a.m. by Richard Mason ...

Q: I thought you were a Southerner, Walter! But in a recent AJC article, you spelled “crepe myrtle” as CRAPE myrtle. Shame, shame! This from an 80-year-old woman! Gloria Duggar, email A: Ralph ...

Many crape myrtle trees across the D.C. region are infested by a bug called bark scale, which leaves behind a black fungal infection. A cure is elusive.

The single-trunk crape myrtle is a popular street tree that grows 15 to 25 feet tall and usually does not interfere with power lines. If you have limited space, consider a semi-dwarf variety that ...

I enjoy living n a heavily wooded area; that's why I oppose over-pruning of any tree. Sure, we do need to prune trees if they are in a urban setting and they are a danger to power lines, but we ...