For vibrant summer color, few flowering plants can compete with the crepe myrtle. Just look around your neighborhood. Nearly every street in the South is lined with these blooming trees from mid-June ...

Q: You are the "go to" on all things gardening! I've recently spied some invasive organisms in/on my more than 30-year-old crape myrtles. I've never seen anything like it and hope you have. [The ...

Dear Neil: I have enclosed leaves and dried buds from my crape myrtle. As early as June, the leaves had these slashes cut in them and the buds turned dry and brown. My husband sprayed them with a ...