Why is my crape myrtle dead? The bark is splitting and peeling off. Inside, the trunk is black and the wood is moist. The plant beside it has ...

Read more: How To Repel Bugs Naturally While still alarming, damage to crepe myrtle leaves is not an indicator of crepe myrtle bark scale (though it may point to aphid infestation or disparate ...

My crepe myrtles are well-established, so I walk around each one after it starts leafing out to see if I missed any dead wood and remove it in late March or early April. Mature crepe myrtles ...

Initially all the leaves looked as good as the lowest branch does now. The last several years have seen a great deal of dieback and even death of crape myrtles due to cold injury. I work with ...

Crepe myrtles, Lagerstroemia indica ... branches with knobby ends that put out sprays of small twiggy stems and leaves the plant looking like a hydra with bad hair. There are ways to return ...

While people in the southern regions have Crepe Myrtle and Magnolias that bloom in spring, we have lilacs and crabapple trees ...

White, wooly adults (figure 1, 2) with pink to purple eggs underneath (Figure 3) can be seen in late spring. The first generation was observed in late May through early June using a hand lens or ...

A reader’s crape myrtle shows how trees fight to survive, even when cut down. Horticulture columnist Ken Spencer offers advice.