However, today a different plant is increasingly appearing on the gardening scene: the Indian crape myrtle. Once thought to ...

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But all is not well. While their leafy cousins parade their fabulous colors this month, the future for crape myrtles across the region — and beyond — is decidedly gray. The popular trees don ...

Crape myrtles don't need much pruning to stay healthy. Trimming these trees at the right time can improve their bloom production, but they'll grow just fine without the intervention of you and ...

I usually wait until mid-January to write something on this topic but this week I saw my first severe pruning of a crape myrtle for this dormant season earlier this month. So, instead of visions ...

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NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Despite being native to China and Korea, the Crape Myrtle is the official shrub of Texas. You can hardly walk down a street in this area without seeing one in someone's ...

To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. My husband wants to plant crape myrtle trees on the side of the house. We live on a corner lot, and this will be nice curb appeal ...

F. Cochran's remark, “I. prayed Almighty God that the price of crape would rise in England,” I find upon analysis that the remark assumes a ludicrous appearance and stamps our friend as ...

Q: Our crape myrtle got out of control, so we cut it down and had the stump dug up. Two years later, little shoots are appearing in the lawn, anywhere from a few inches to four feet away from the ...

Yet there is one item that deserves to be struck from our list of official state notables as it tarnishes the rest of this noble menagerie: the crape myrtle, our official state shrub. If you were ...