While it won't result in repeat blooming, deadheading crepe myrtle flowers will keep your shrubs looking their best ...

sending the Red Raiders to an 85-83 win over the Razorbacks and into an Elite Eight matchup with No. 1 seed Florida. “The heart of this team is Darrion Williams,” Texas Tech coach Grant ...

First detected in the U.S. in Dallas in 2004, crape myrtle bark scale is a sucking insect that feeds on the sap of plants. It excretes a sugary solution known as “honeydew,” like what is ...

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 ...

You’re in luck. The 2024 Crape Myrtle Festival will return to John Barnes Park in Ardmore on Saturday. The annual festival is free to the public with free parking. Yolanda Eubanks, Director of the ...

The crape myrtle bark scale, an invasive insect, is less well-known. First spotted in Delaware in 2020, the bug threatens the beauty of these beloved trees. The pest is now active in Sussex and Kent ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Garden tip of the week with Jennifer ...

In southeastern Asian cuisine, cooks use its red flowers and burgundy seed pods as curry vegetables ... spotted red flowering tree in Florida. Chinese native crape (also spelled crepe) myrtle’s ...

In an earlier version of this article, the last name of a Smithsonian Gardens arborist was incorrectly stated. He is Jacob Hendee, not Jacob Hender. The article has been corrected. Spring has ...

The crepe myrtle bush blooms from June to the end of the season, and it is ideal to remove seed pods to encourage flower bloom ... Carolina beauty, black diamond red hot, and Muskogee varieties. The ...

Crape myrtle blooms come in shades of pink, red, lilac and white ... Begin by removing the seed pods. Clip them back to where the branch is the thickness of a finger. This will ensure sturdy ...