When I share the secrets to growing crape myrtles in Prescott, gardeners often express surprise. You might think these ...

Dear Neil: Why is my crape myrtle dead? The bark is splitting and peeling off. Inside, the trunk is black and the wood is ... The ornamental types look like orange-red carnations (see my photo ...

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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 ...

Crape myrtles begin blooming in mid-July and continue through the end of September in a variety of colors including white, pink, lavender and red. In addition to the bright colors of the flowers ...

What are the little white specks on the trunks of my crape myrtles? And why are ... to the scale insects. With black wings and two conspicuous orange-red spots on the wings, it is called the ...

Crape myrtles bloom three or four times ... “twice-stabbed” ladybug because of its two orange-red spots highlighting its shiny black wings. The nymphs of that beneficial insect would gobble ...

At our May meeting, fellow Gloucester Master Gardener Wanda Eberle suggested crape myrtle bark scale as a timely topic ... The adult ladybird beetle (Hyperapis begeminata), a shiny black insect with ...

While their leafy cousins parade their fabulous colors this month, the future for crape myrtles across the region ... everything below the tree in tacky black. If that weren’t enough ...

There are a number of varieties of this crepe myrtle species, including the centennial spirit, Carolina beauty, black diamond red hot, and Muskogee varieties ... pleasing look of the crepe myrtle!