Though springtime in Lancaster County is greeted by a spectrum of blooming trees and shrubs, late-summer color can be hard to ...

Name: The popular Crape Myrtle tree, with its brilliant summer flower display, is a tree that can cheer anyone who is heat weary. Crinkle-petaled blossoms cluster at branch tips and bloom for many ...

Urban Forestry Extension Agent Larry Figart has advice for selecting and caring for crape myrtles, which show off their blooms all summer long.

'Enduring Summer' Crape Myrtle is a compact flowering shrub that only grows to about 4 to 5 feet tall, so it can fit anywhere.

Most Crape Myrtle varieties are hardy in Zone 7 or warmer, but southern Ohio is in Zone 6a. At our nursery we carry only Zone 6 or Zone 5 Crape Myrtle cultivars.

Their appeal is obvious: Crape myrtles are one of the few woody plants to bloom with gusto during hot, humid summer months. They have good fall leaf color, and in types where the bark is exposed ...

More recently Cecil Pounders began breeding the dramatic black-leafed varieties; and in 2015, the Enduring Summer series was released, many of which are reblooming.

Fuschia: 'Tonto' is another attention-grabbing crape myrtle that blows pastel shades out of the water. The 8- to 9-foot shrubs are covered with dark fuchsia flowers for more than two months each ...

While this is true and great horticultural practices, there is an argument to be made for picking out and planting crape myrtles in summer.

Crape myrtles grow to 20-30 feet at maturity – a perfect patio size and certainly a show-stopper when late summer flowers are within eye level. Ideally, you won’t prune crape myrtles at all.