Fast-growing crepe myrtle is a garden show-off, with bright flowers all summer long. Find out how to prune crepe myrtle to ...

The most wind-resistant trees have deep, extensive roots, strong trunks, and flexible wood that bends under wind pressure ...

A: Regretfully your crape myrtles have been overtaken by shade and probably won’t be good flowering shrubs again ... anise about 10 feet high and red cordyline which is currently flowering.

or trees, which can grow more than 20 feet. Crape myrtle blooms come in shades of pink, red, lilac and white. Be sure to grow them in a sunny location for maximum flower production. Like most ...

several of them co-claiming the crown as the "Crape Myrtle Capitol of Texas" (McKinney, Waxahachie and Burleson just to name a few). Once established, these trees can handle drought and heat waves ...

While their leafy cousins parade their fabulous colors this month, the future for crape myrtles across the region — and beyond — is decidedly gray. The popular trees don’t bloom until summer ...

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 ...

Blooms are but one of crape myrtle’s charms. The trees are worth growing for their graceful form, and as summer fades, the glossy green foliage turns fiery shades of orange, gold and red in one ...

And it is not healthy for the trees in the long run. Drastically cutting back crape myrtles creates large wounds that can serve as points of entry for fungal decay organisms. Pruning like this may ...