Crape Myrtle The easiest and most colorful way to decorate your yard for the summer is to add plants. Not only will they rebloom all season long, they’ll come back year after year. Summer ...

Crape myrtles, Lagerstroemia spp., are deciduous shrubs or trees native to southeastern China. The crape myrtle, Lagerstroemia indica, was introduced into England in 1759 and met with dismal ...

Fortunately crape myrtles tolerate all forms of pruning. Horticulturists usually like to leave their shrubs and tree forms with the natural look by providing minimal pruning.

The botanical name for crape myrtle is Lagerstroemia, named after the Swedish merchant Magnus von Lagerström, who supplied famed botanist Carl Linnaeus with plants he collected. There are about ...

Crape myrtles (Lagerstroemia spp.) are deciduous shrubs or trees native to southeastern China. The crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) was introduced into England in 1759 and met with dismal ...

The crape myrtle breeding program has resulted in scores of hybrid trees and shrubs that offer a wide range of sizes, growth habits, flower and bark color, as well as disease resistance.

Crape myrtles are wonderful summer-flowering, drought-tolerant, low maintenance trees or shrubs for our Visalia landscapes. No wonder I am addicted to them! This column runs every week in Living.

The botanical garden’s crape myrtle, or Lagerstroemia, collection of 450 plants representing 82 varieties was recently accredited as a North American Plant Collections Consortium, which is ...

These are the most common pests that may attack your crepe myrtle, and what you can do to stop them from destroying your tree ...

Crape myrtles are grown mostly for the vivid flowers which are produced in large, branched groups during the warm months.