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 ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Despite being native to China and Korea, the Crape Myrtle is the official shrub of Texas. You can hardly walk down a street in this area without seeing one in someone's ...

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 ...

This fast-growing (up to 5 feet per year) woody plant flowers all summer long, making crape myrtle a popular garden ... My favorite is a glossy red new growth compact variety named Summerlasting ...

Crape myrtles ... brown to bright red. The colorful bark persists through winter until fading in spring when the process starts over again. Q. How can I get my crape myrtle to grow faster?

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 plants that bloom during the summer, crape ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...