Pink lemonade. Refreshing slices of watermelons on the red side of pink. Pink crape myrtles against the bright summer sky. Pink is a very useful color when we get ready to landscape, so let me ...

Flowering trees can add color and shade to your yard. Experts select the best flowering trees that will thrive in North Texas ...

From accents to ground covers, living fences to containers, these exciting new plants can make a significant difference in our gardens ...

Even though it doesn’t have a perfume, this bright, low evergreen spreader ... years that a friend in Portland has been growing crape myrtles (lagerstroemia) with great success and enjoying ...

and elegant crape myrtles. The Japanese Garden becomes a refreshing haven from Georgia’s notorious humidity, offering cool shade when the mercury climbs. Fall might be the garden’s true masterpiece, ...

Photo Credit: Gibbs Gardens Summer transforms the gardens into a lush green sanctuary dotted with day lilies, hydrangeas, and crape myrtles. The Japanese Garden ... Wave after wave of sunshine-bright ...

From bright red salvias, orange hummingbird plant, yellow sunflowers and black eyed susans, purple bluebeard and ruellia, dynamite red crape myrtle, gray-green foliage ... This sun lover with lovely ...

Standard crape myrtles have the potential to be wonderful small trees, if they aren’t chopped to their knees annually. There are thousands of varieties available, and the plants mature height ...

I was amazed at what good help there is out there. Dear Neil: Regarding crape myrtle bark scale – Southeastern Virginia has been battling this pest for years. The scale itself will not kill the ...