For vibrant summer color, few flowering plants can compete with the crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica). Just look around your neighborhood. Nearly every street in the South is lined with these ...

If you are wondering why your crepe myrtle shrubs or trees have developed brown leaves, the first thing to look at is the calendar. Late summer usually brings about browning leaves due to the heat, ...

Dear Neil: About three weeks ago our crape myrtles started dropping leaves. We’ve lived here 20 years and we’ve never seen them do this before. They were watered weekly. Any idea what the problem ...

Grumpy tackles readers’ questions about choosing the best clover for your lawn, troubleshoots common crepe myrtle problems, ...

Although native to eastern Asia, crape myrtles are indispensable in the Southern landscape. Its vibrantly colored flowers in shades of pink, purple, red and white from May to September virtually ...

Leaf of a crape myrtle. (NOLA.com|The Times-Picayune archive) This week's gardening tips: Many crape myrtles are dropping yellow or red leaves with spots on them. This is a fungal disease called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If crepe myrtles stop flowering, these tips will help your plants rebloom The Spruce / Jayme Burrows Known as the “lilac of the ...

Crape myrtles are beginning to bloom now in south Louisiana, and they’ll continue into September. So LSU horticulturist Dan Gill has some suggestions for caring for your crape myrtles throughout the ...

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 bark scale is an invasive pest spreading across the Southeast US. Researchers have found a natural solution, ...

A: Lovely landscape. Lovely crape myrtles. Without watching your plants operate during that time, I’m going to have to give it an educated guess. It still is likely that they got a bit dry. Crape ...