The beautiful Serviceberry tree is a diminutive yet hardy specimen from the eastern US, loved for its flowers and foliage. It's these qualities that earn it its reputation as a tough urban tree.

There are numerous species and cultivars of azaleas offering a range of heights, shapes, and flower colors. To line a garden path or frame a border, select dwarf azaleas and low-growing azaleas.

Certain trees, like figs, crape myrtles, calamondins, ginkgos, and Japanese maples, can thrive when planted in pots rather ...

As a newly planted crape myrtle grows, you can gradually remove lower branches from the main trunks for the first few years to raise the canopy of the tree. When pruning, thin out areas with many ...

Submitted photo This is known as 'crape murder,' lopping off the top of a crape myrtle tree to try and make it into a bush. This tree will not bloom this year. Crape myrtles are cherished for ...

Whether your patio is next to your house or a little farther away, planting a tree can be an easy way to provide shade. “If the weather is hot, it can be 20 degrees cooler in the shade than being in ...

Pruning out branches that cross over other branches promotes airflow and reduces diseases. Aphids can be drawn to crape myrtles, but easily controlled with Watter Multi-Purpose Insect Spray.

Simply put, many crape myrtles grow too big for their planting sites, causing homeowners to commit myrtle mayhem with pruners or a chainsaw. The most important factor to consider when selecting a ...

Circumstances when a crepe myrtle legitimately needs to be topped do exist, Files said, like keeping the tree from becoming entangled in power lines. Pruning a branch because it threatens someone ...

In many parts of North Carolina, all life stages are found throughout the year. Crapemyrtle bark scale feeds on the phloem sap of crape myrtles using their piercing-sucking mouthparts.