'Lovely time of year for their blooms,' one person said.

Gardening advice from an urban horticulturist emeritus with the University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service ...

Q: There’s white stuff all over my crape myrtle foliage and flowers. I’ve never seen it this bad. What is it, and what can I do about it? A: Powdery mildew is the culprit, and it seems to be abundant ...

I would like to know if I need to cut the green seed pods off my crape myrtle. Looking online, I see two answers. Some say to ...

January and February are ideal months for pruning deciduous plants that are dormant. Before bringing out the saws and shears, do a little homework to research which plants should be pruned now and the ...

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 crape ...

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 ...

Not long ago, I received the following email: “I have two crape myrtle trees in my front yard, one about 25 years old and one about 10 years old. They are in full sun. They usually bloom later than ...

Crape myrtle is a plant of my childhood. Like bottlebrush, oleander, Agapanthus, Fatsia and ivy (yes, the noxious weed that's choking out native areas in Oregon), crape myrtle was ubiquitous. After a ...

Perhaps no plant is better suited to deal with a future of increasingly warm Northwest summers than crape myrtles, once described by Al’s Garden Center owner Jack Bigej as being around “since dirt was ...

Q: I thought you were a Southerner, Walter! But in a recent AJC article, you spelled “crepe myrtle” as CRAPE myrtle. Shame, shame! This from an 80-year-old woman! Gloria Duggar, email A: Ralph Waldo ...