My husband wants to plant crape myrtle trees on the side of the house. We live on a corner lot and this will be nice curb appeal with the proper up lighting. However, I see crape myrtles that grow to ...

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.

I usually wait until mid-January to write something on this topic but this week I saw my first severe pruning of a crape myrtle for this dormant season earlier this month. So, instead of visions of ...

Crape myrtles are common landscape plants. In today’s article, Gary Knox, a horticulture professor with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, answers common ...

Unusual summer weather has caused crape myrtle trees to behave unusually. In most years crape myrtles start blooming between mid-May and early June and continue flowering for 90-120 days, depending on ...

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 ...

This time in May is critical to the success of your crape myrtles for the next nine months. That includes how well they grow, bloom and look in your landscape. Let’s cover the details. Were they hurt ...

Dear Neil: Why do named varieties of crape myrtles seem to disappear from nurseries? Two popular names from the past, Watermelon Red and Glendora White, are rarely available. As with most other ...

Now’s the time of year you’re most likely to see naked crape myrtle trees, the unfortunate consequence of improper wintertime pruning. The practice has even been given a not-so-affectionate nickname: ...

Introduced from China, crape myrtles have been grown in the U.S. since the American Revolution and were well-established on plantations throughout the South before the Civil War. Old, unpruned crape ...