This time of year, when we walk outside, we are immediately hit with a thick wall of Northeast Florida humidity. While most of our landscape trees and plants are drooping or having pest and disease ...

Crape myrtle shrubs are among the easiest plants to transplant and grow. They require only a moderate amount of fertility, water and maintenance. Crape myrtles are available in several sizes, shapes, ...

Editor's note: Brenda Smith is a graduate of the Extension Service Master Gardener class. This will be an occasional column featuring information indigenous to the area. For more gardening news, see ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. Our 10-year-old crape myrtles turned brilliant colors in early December ...

Although native to eastern Asia, crape myrtles (Lagerstroemia) are almost indispensable in the Southern landscape. Their vibrantly colored flowers in shades of pink, purple, red and white from May to ...

Brazos has been the "Crape Myrtle Capital County of Texas" since 1991. If your crape myrtles aren't colorful right now, you should improve their environment for next year. Crape myrtles are the ...

We often add flowering annuals and perennials to our landscapes to introduce color but flowering trees are sometimes overlooked. There are many great flowering trees throughout the year, but the one ...

This fast-growing (up to 5 feet per year) woody plant flowers all summer long, making crape myrtle a popular garden favorite. “Specimen trees can be great for shade in the summer,” says Tracy Harrison ...

Speaking as a “plantaholic” who likes just about all things with foliage, fronds or needles, one plant I started to salivate over in the 1990s was crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia sp.). For us in northern ...

It is crape murder time again. The time when landscapers do not have enough to do so they murder crape myrtle trees. Why? That is a question I have asked myself for years. Why would someone cut a ...

Crape Myrtle is a quintessential South Carolina landscape tree, and the history of crape myrtles and South Carolina are intertwined - just like the branches of this glorious tree. The first crape ...