Crape Myrtle Tree and Shrub Care Tips Botanical name: Lagerstroemia spp. Common names: Crape myrtle, crepe myrtle, crapemyrtle, crepe-myrtle Hardiness zones: 6 to 10 Size: 3 to 30 feet Soil: Moist ...

The reason most often used for topping crape myrtles is that they have gotten too tall. The solution is simple. There are over 1200 varieties of crape myrtle with mature heights ranging from 2 ...

5. Don't cut the top off ever. The time is never right to severely chop off your crape myrtle. This terrible practice has been dubbed “crape murder” because it can ruin your tree.

So if you have these lovely flowers growing in your backyard, don't leave them to brace the winter all on their own. Crape myrtle needs a touch of added protection to survive the frost and these ...

Crape myrtles, an ornamental tree popular in landscapes throughout the state of Delaware, are prized for their beauty, exfoliating bark in shades of silver and cinnamon, and long-lasting flowers in a ...

To cut a crape myrtle back for the vague reason of “it just seems too large” ignores the fact that these plants are trees. They are supposed to be relatively large.

Lukas Suzano with Davey Tree of Nashville says you don't need to trim your trees so aggressively. There's a better way to take care of them. Watch this Let Me Help segment in the video player above.

Crape myrtles, an ornamental tree popular in landscapes throughout the state of Delaware, are prized for their beauty, exfoliating bark in shades of silver and cinnamon, and long-lasting flowers in a ...

The Family Plot Nursery Plant Problems & Pruning Crape Myrtle Season 14 Episode 51 | 27m 7s | ...

Garden tip of the week with Jennifer Ferguson. Today, we will discuss the crape myrtle bark scale. This small elongated insect is white and gray, feeds on the crape myrtle tree, and produces a ...

First, let me give you a gold star for asking this question. The crape myrtle is the most popular small, summer-flowering tree for Louisiana landscapes. But many gardeners are not aware of the ...

The myrtle is quite clearly a tree—one that grows in an inelegant tangle of oft-gnarled trunks. Pedants may argue that the crape’s hydra of stems technically qualify it as a shrub.