While it won't result in repeat blooming, deadheading crepe myrtle flowers will keep your shrubs looking their best ...

Fall weather changes the foliage to a range of reddish-orange to deep red hues for continued beauty. The exfoliating bark adds texture to the tree during the winter when the leaves are gone. Since the ...

Crepe myrtles, Lagerstroemia indica, vary in size from dwarf shrubs to multi-trunked and single-trunk trees growing to 30 feet tall. Most varieties produce beautiful blooms starting in spring or ...

Crape myrtles are the most popular summer flowering tree in the U.S. Although rarely fatal to the trees, the sticky leaves and black trunks take away the attractive appearance of the trees and ...

It doesn’t matter how horticulturists talk about proper pruning techniques, each year more and more trees are cut back to stubs. Standard crape myrtles have the potential to be wonderful small ...

Although perhaps a little overly dramatic, it is in use by horticulturists across the Southeast wherever crape myrtles are a popular and common tree. I often encounter gardeners who have gotten ...

WASHINGTON — Crape Myrtle trees are found all over the DMV. They boast beautiful blooms and are a staple of many landscapes. But little white critters, called bark scale, are threatening the trees.

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- An Escambia County man bought his home because of crape myrtle trees in the front yard. But he tells WEAR News they're being torn down and there is nothing he can do about it.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Environmentalists are warning about Richmond’s crape myrtle trees being attacked by a non-native invasive species called bark scale. The tree-damaging bugs have ...

And now we come to the primary cause of crepe murder. Even though small crepe myrtles that don't grow taller than 6 to 12 feet are widely available (such as 'Acoma', the Black Magic series, the Early ...

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 ...