Crape murder is happening all over town. It doesn’t matter how horticulturists talk about proper pruning techniques, each year more and more trees are cut back to stubs. Standard crape myrtles ...

How to prune crape myrtle is always a popular subject whenever I make a presentation about pruning trees. The discussion always centers around how far back you should prune them.

Somehow, the belief that crape myrtles should be brutally pruned by cutting off their tops persists, even though it's inaccurate. Crape murder is a term that has been coined to describe this ...

Crape myrtles don't need much pruning to stay healthy. Trimming these trees at the right time can improve their bloom production, but they'll grow just fine without the intervention of you and ...

A nice tree for smaller spaces, at about 20 to 25 feet when mature it is about the size of a standard crape myrtle. I have one in my landscape, and I’ve been delighted with its moderately fast ...

The single-trunk crape myrtle is a popular street tree that grows 15 to 25 feet tall and usually does not interfere with power lines. If you have limited space, consider a semi-dwarf variety that ...

To avoid having to trim back your crapemyrtles back in what experts call crape murder style ... there’s the standard tree form of crapemyrtle that typically grows to between 15 and 35 feet tall.

There are more than 125 named varieties of crape myrtles. ... Warren’s Red was introduced by an old Oklahoma City nursery decades ago, and it is still the standard of excellence.

First of all, the crape myrtle isn’t a shrub. It isn’t even an arbusto, as George W. Bush might put it.The myrtle is quite clearly a tree—one that grows in an inelegant tangle of oft-gnarled ...

Crape myrtle bark scale (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae) was initially found in Texas in 2004 and has been found in at least 11 other states since. It was first found in Delaware during the spring of 2020.

If your crapemyrtle has been horribly scarred by “crape murder,” cut it to the ground in early spring and watch how fast it grows back. Wait one year then select the number of permanent trunks ...