The Ledger's annual crape myrtle sale will be held June 14 from 7 a.m. to noon in the newspaper ... available in a variety of colors, including red, white, pink and lavender.

The medium-sized crape myrtles with red flowers that were recognized were Country Redland Dynamite. For a tall crape myrtle with red flowers, Parsons identified Red Rocket. Red Rocket has a high ...

Q: Every year, Japanese beetles attack my crape myrtle, but other crape myrtles in the neighborhood don’t seem to be affected. Why? Connie Stevens, Barrow County A: Mechanical factors of the ...

Q: We paid someone to dig up a crape myrtle two years ago ... Muskogee, Sioux and Country Red, but others were hurt, too. So the answer to your question isn’t an easy one.

Q: Our crape myrtle got out of control, so we cut it down and had the stump dug up. Two years later, little shoots are appearing in the lawn, anywhere from a few inches to four feet away from the ...

I usually wait until mid-January to write something on this topic but this week I saw my first severe pruning of a crape myrtle for this dormant season earlier this month. So, instead of visions ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Garden tip of the week with Jennifer ...

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 ...

The Crape Myrtle Bark Scale is a felt scale insect that has a main diet consisting of Crape Myrtle trees, according to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

The crape myrtle bark scale, an invasive insect, is less well-known. First spotted in Delaware in 2020, the bug threatens the beauty of these beloved trees. The pest is now active in Sussex and Kent ...

Yet there is one item that deserves to be struck from our list of official state notables as it tarnishes the rest of this noble menagerie: the crape myrtle, our official state shrub. If you were ...