From attracting pollinators to repelling pests, companion plants can benefit the crepe myrtles in your yard. And you'll add color and texture for more impact.

Flowering trees and shrubs are a great way to bring blooms to your landscape with little effort. Crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Multiple crepe myrtle trees growing in a housing development. - Olesia Bilkei/Shutterstock You may be tempted by the fluffy blooms ...

Avoid this common pruning mistake before your tree becomes an eyesore.

The question about pruning Crepe Myrtles and other plants seem to top the list of questions for this week. The butchers are out there. The time is now for getting in your soil test, so you can amend ...

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 ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. My husband wants to plant crape myrtle trees on the side of the house.

A well-groomed plush tree is a quick route to an expensive-looking front yard. There is a certain grandeur to an established tree that is irreplaceable and that cannot be replicated by any other ...

I’d like to introduce you to one of southern Florida’s most magnificent landscape plants — crape myrtle. Originally grown in Japan, China and parts of Southeast Asia, it’s the supermodel of the plant ...

The crape myrtle has become the standard of medium-size trees to plant in the Louisiana landscape. Crape myrtles are easy to produce, easy to grow and very inexpensive to purchase. But sometimes we ...