For example, a crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica ... bay and regulates the soil temperature with an insulating layer. Whether you pick wood chips and bark or gravel, mulch gives garden beds a ...

Dear Neil: Why do named varieties of crape myrtles seem to disappear from nurseries ... especially with a hackberry. Their wood is brittle on a good day and downright dangerous in bad weather ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- The city is giving away free wood chip mulch on first-come, first-served basis for the time being. The giveaway is a result of an abundance of wood chip mulch at the Recycling 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 ...

Well-draining soil is essential for this plant, and if you add some mulch to the soil around the base, it shouldn't need a lot of extra watering. In fact, crape myrtles are considered ... cultivar ...

Snow used to give us a reliable insulating blanket, but now that our winters are mostly snowless, that mulch blanket of shredded hardwood, bark chips ... such as figs, crape myrtles, and some ...

Applying mulch to bare areas around your landscape and surrounding your trees is best practice, offering benefits such as water retention and temperature regulation. Most of the commercially ...

(Ed Perry) If you have an ash, Chinese pistache, crape myrtle, flowering pear ... be protected from string weeder damage with plastic sleeves. Better yet, place chip mulch on the soil around the tree ...

If you are using a wood-based mulch, it should be removed and replaced with pine needles. We recently pruned all of our blueberry plants. We are going to chip the trimmings into mulch. We are ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- The city is giving away wood chip mulch on a first come, first served basis until supplies are gone. The giveaway is a result of an abundance of wood chip mulch at the Recycling ...