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

Crape myrtles, Lagerstroemia spp., are deciduous shrubs or trees native to southeastern ... a hybrid from the U.S. National Arboretum, with bright red flowers, rounded plant form and good disease ...

The crape myrtle became popular in spite ... “fantastic diversity from pinks to purples to red.” “Lagerstroemia fauriei tend to be trees,’ Pooler said. ‘They’re big plants.

On McCommas Boulevard between Abrams Road and Skillman Street, you can see an impressive stand of watermelon-red crape myrtles. I have long admired this block of trees and just assumed that the ...

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.

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 ...

For the record, however, notice how strongly the new shoots have grown on the crape myrtle down the hill ... looks more like a red maple or some other kind of tree than a redbud.