This crape myrtle is suffering from long-term cold damage effects. Dear Neil: Something is eating the impatiens on one side of my planter, while the impatiens on the other side is doing fine.

I have two large coconut fiber baskets hanging from crape myrtle trees. Each year, the increasing shade has made it harder to have serious color and texture.

The crape myrtle is splitting, likely from old cold damage in February 2021. The leaves have withered and dropped on this grapefruit tree, likely from cold injury.

A: This question actually came linked with the one just above, which gave me a clue to the crape myrtle’s most likely problem. This, too, is guaranteed cold injury. Grapefruit plants won’t withstand ...

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