Gardening author and podcast host Kathy Jentz praises the beauty of the blooms. "The flowers are borne on long branches in ...

MacCubbin gives Florida gardening advice about caring for nun’s orchids, crape myrtles, sago, Mysore raspberry, mango trees, ...

The most wind-resistant trees have deep, extensive roots, strong trunks, and flexible wood that bends under wind pressure instead of breaking. Some good examples are the live oak, crape myrtle, and ...

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

Anyone walking around the East Texas A&M University campus in the last year has probably noticed a slow yet wonderful ...

The author blames the practice of "crape murder," or cutting back all branches annually, for the weak growth. Proper pruning, ...

To underscore the severity of this pruning crime, one has only to Google “crape murder” and see page after page of sites that ...

First, one can argue that crape myrtles are large shrubs, not trees. The American Horticultural Society calls them “Upright, deciduous tree or large shrub….” Second, the practice of crape ...