Brazos has been the "Crape Myrtle Capital County of Texas" since 1991. If your crape myrtles aren't colorful right now, you should improve their environment for next year. Crape myrtles are the ...

Each summer in Redlands, we feel like we live in a beautiful bouquet of crape myrtle blossoms when the many crape myrtle trees in Redlands burst into eye-catching bloom. Bright clusters of red, purple ...

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 ...

It is hard to go down any residential street in Jacksonville without seeing a crape myrtle in bloom. They have become the dominant summertime flowering tree throughout the South. The original crape ...

A question for Dan Gill: My husband wants to plant crepe myrtle trees on the side of the house. I want them, but I do not want them to be huge. Are there smaller-growing crape myrtles? I was thinking ...

Seasoned southern gardeners know that – while there are few hard-and-fast rules – you must have certain plants. Wilmington is home to the North Carolina Azalea Festival, so evergreen azaleas are a ...

Q. Is it possible for a crape myrtle's blossoms to change colors over time? I planted three `Natchez' crapes in 1997. They always bloomed white until last year. One starts blooming white in May but ...

Editor's note: Brenda Smith is a graduate of the Extension Service Master Gardener class. This will be an occasional column featuring information indigenous to the area. For more gardening news, see ...

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 ...