Q: My neighbor pointed out a part of my big pink-blooming loropetalum shrub that has white flowers. Why did this happen? Do I have an off-breed loropetalum? — Jack Chilton, north Decatur ...

The bark of a tree is its own protection against the weather. While we shrug on a coat when it’s wet or cold, a tree will ...

Saucer magnolias are among the first trees to bloom in spring ... including pink, red, white and lavender.(Gary Fink) Crape myrtle: “Crape myrtles are super heat and drought tolerant ...

Sometimes, when you crane your neck and scan the sky for odd things, it occurs to you that the oddest thing in the universe ...

Joellen Dimond talks about creating a spring gardening checklist and Bill Colvard prunes a fig tree. This week ... make sure you inspect your crape myrtles for crape myrtle bark scale too.

The sky was hazy, which made the big white moon seem even more vivid ... a birdfeeder strung like a lantern from a branch of the crape myrtle. It was a windless night, and in the faint glow ...

Over the years contributors have submitted many photos of tree failures that we have displayed at the ... Mize Lagerstroemia indica (crape myrtle) trunk failure. There are 6 reports for this species ...

From bright red salvias, orange hummingbird plant, yellow sunflowers and black eyed susans, purple bluebeard and ruellia, dynamite red crape myrtle, gray-green foliage ... a fast growing deciduous ...

Why do named varieties of crape myrtles seem to disappear from nurseries? Two popular names from the past, Watermelon Red and ...