Crape myrtles have put on their dazzling display lately, but crape myrtles are a flowering tree that needs care.

Something is eating the impatiens on one side of my planter, while the impatiens on the other side is doing fine. What can I ...

Neil Sperry tackles dandelions, dead crape myrtles, shade grass, and fruitless pomegranates in Texas lawns.

Dear Neil: 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 ...

The crape myrtle ( Lagerstroemia indica ) is a small tree, native to China and Korea, that comes in many varieties and colors.

Timing is everything when it comes to pruning a crape myrtle. So when is it too late to prune crape myrtles if you want blooms in the summer? Along with not cutting off next year’s flowers, your ...

Q: We have a crape myrtle that was planted in 2018. Until spring 2023, I trimmed its branches back in mid-February each year and it always bloomed beautifully.

Crape myrtles, an ornamental tree popular in landscapes throughout the state of Delaware, are prized for their beauty, exfoliating bark in shades of silver and cinnamon, and long-lasting flowers in a ...

The myrtle is quite clearly a tree—one that grows in an inelegant tangle of oft-gnarled trunks. Pedants may argue that the crape’s hydra of stems technically qualify it as a shrub.

You’ve probably seen crape myrtle trees pruned to look like a coat rack. Hopefully, you’re not guilty of doing this. The term “crape murder” was coined to describe this drastic topping of ...