With their spectacular displays of spring and summer blooms, rich fall foliage and unusual bark, crepe myrtle flowering trees ...

They're called bark scale. They're tiny little insects but they're destructive and causing big problems across the DMV.

About three weeks ago our crape myrtles started dropping leaves. We’ve lived here 20 years and we’ve never seen them do this ...

Finally, perhaps it’s just the time of day when you took the photo, but it appears that large trees may have grown out and over the crape myrtles. It appears that they’re in a good bit of shade.

Finally, perhaps it’s just the time of day when you took the photo, but it appears that large trees may have grown out and over the crape myrtles. It appears that they’re in a good bit of shade.

If you’ve been wanting to plant a tree, fall is a great time. The cooling temperatures and still-warm soil mean less stress ...

As much as I love crape myrtles, they don’t have the best manners ... among many other species of trees. I live and garden in an oak/pecan forest and I don’t worry in the least.

Crape myrtles all across Texas started shedding leaves ... I also wonder if there’s any chance of shallow soil beneath these trees, perhaps with a rocky outcropping. It does happen here in ...

As much as I love crape myrtles, they don’t have the best manners ... among many other species of trees. I live and garden in an oak/pecan forest and I don’t worry in the least.

As much as I love crape myrtles, they don’t have the best manners ... among many other species of trees. I live and garden in an oak/pecan forest and I don’t worry in the least.

Dear Neil: We have two large crape myrtles next to our community pool. They were damaged by the February 2021 cold spell. They’re alive, but they only have random clumps of leaves on some ...