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 ...

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

Is Crape Myrtle a Bush or Tree? With such a wide array of sizes ... My favorite is a glossy red new growth compact variety named Summerlasting Strawberry.” For tree-form crape myrtles, choose ...

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 ...

Q: We have a crape myrtle that was planted ... Its prime victims are Shumard red oaks, Chinese pistachios and red maples like yours. These are trees that have notoriously thin bark when they ...