Crape myrtles have put on their dazzling display lately, but crape myrtles are a flowering tree that needs care.

If you're planning to prune the crape myrtle in your yard, stop and read this first.

Drive down almost any street in Dallas, and you'll see: This is crape myrtle country. But gone are the days of choosing between the red one and the pink one. Now, gardeners can choose shades of ...

Four height categories now exist: miniature, dwarf, medium, and standard. The National Gardening Association currently lists 440 Crape Myrtle cultivars in its plant database.

The original crape myrtles were introduced to the United Sates in the late 1800s from Southeast Asia where they had been in cultivation for hundreds of years. These early crape myrtles were prone ...

How to Winterize Potted Crape Myrtle If your crape myrtle is in a container gardening setup, Tony has an alternative guide that caters to your potted blooms to help them get through winter.

The crape myrtle has become the standard of medium-size trees to plant in the Louisiana landscape. Crape myrtles are easy to produce, easy to grow and very inexpensive to purchase.

All four spellings of the name of this plant (crepe myrtle, crepemyrtle, crape myrtle, and crapemyrtle) are acceptable in informal writing.

You’ve probably seen crape myrtle trees pruned to look like a coat rack. Hopefully, you’re not guilty of doing this. The term “crape murder” was coined to describe this drastic topping of ...

Crape myrtles begin blooming in mid-July and continue through the end of September in a variety of colors including white, pink, lavender and red.

Crape myrtles are common landscape plants. In today’s article, Gary Knox, a horticulture professor with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, answers common ...

If you're planning to prune the crape myrtle in your yard, stop and read this first.