Among the many mistakes everyone makes when growing crepe myrtle, improper care during the winter is the nail in the coffin that will kill your beautiful, blooming trees. Crepe myrtle trees ...

When you're looking for plants for your landscape, you probably think about blooms and foliage, but here's a shrubby tree ...

Flowering trees and shrubs are a great way to bring blooms to your landscape with little effort. Crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia spp.) is one of the most colorful and romantic flowering trees available.

Although native to eastern Asia, crape myrtles are indispensable in the Southern landscape. Its vibrantly colored flowers in shades of pink, purple, red and white from May to September virtually ...

Dwarf myrtles include cultivars that are less than 4 feet tall when fully grown. These smaller crepes give all the brilliant color of their taller cousins, but because they’re smaller, you can get a ...

I’ve always admired crepe myrtle trees for their multi-season beauty: stunning crimson/bronze leaves in fall; smooth, patterned bark in winter; and, of course, the late-summer splash of color they ...

This improperly pruned crape myrtle tree has undergone “crape murder,” which is when the entire crown of the crape myrtle tree is cut off. Courtesy of Leaf & Limb, a Raleigh-based tree care company ...

Arbor Day is this Friday, April 26, and the City of Santa Maria got a head start on celebrations by recently adding to the landscape at Rotary Centennial Park.

Environmentalists are warning about Richmond’s crape myrtle trees being attacked by a non-native invasive species called bark scale. The tree-damaging bugs have resurfaced and are threatening the city ...

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 nickname: ...