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 ...

Years of improper pruning have taken their toll on this crape myrtle tree. (Alan Windham, University of Tennessee) QUESTION: While visiting a local mall, I noticed the crape myrtles had all been ...

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 ...

Unfortunately there are too many gardeners, landscapers, nursery people and misinformed others who apparently don’t believe this to be true, otherwise why do we continue to see Crape Myrtle ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whenever I get to the Q&A portion of a talk about pruning trees, there is always a question about how to prune crape myrtles. This time of year, those questions are even more common, as folks ...