This deciduous tree native to Asia thrives in pots and containers with good drainage. The crepe myrtle gets its name from its delicate, paper-like flowers that bloom in vibrant shades of pink ...

This organic all-purpose fertilizer from Burpee, available to order on Amazon, is effective and should give crepe myrtle plants a boost in spring. Native to the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia ...

Rick Darke and Doug Tallamy, co-authors of The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden (Timber Press, $39.95), aren't suggesting we nuke our non-native crape ...

Crape myrtle trees are not native to Texas or anywhere else in the U.S., but they are great ornamental tree choices. Behaving themselves for the most part, they provide long-lasting summer color ...

an enthusiastic nursery owner advocated that every yard in Pensacola should have a (native?) crape myrtle. I too love the nostalgia of ornamental garden specimens planted by grandparents ...

Crape myrtles are native to Asia, which is also where this scale insect evolved. However, this scale is making its way across the southeast, likely spreading through nursery trade and finding ...

Left, the winged seeds of crape myrtle; and right, an American goldfinch feeding on crape myrtle seed. (Image courtesy Gary Graves) ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - The most popular flowering tree across the south and in North Texas is the Crepe Myrtle. The plant is native to China but you wouldn't know that driving around this area.

Native to the Far East, crepe myrtles can be trees or but in my zone 6 garden, they usually die back to the ground each winter. Native to the Far East, crepe myrtles can be trees or but in my zone ...

The crepe myrtle was native to China, then was carried to England in 1759 by early members of the British far eastern trade. The Englishmen had seen and admired the bushes in their native soil ...

There’s even a mauve-pink Australian native crepe myrtle, Lagerstroemia archeriana. While generally regarded as a tree, crepe myrtles can be a small shrub down to just 30cm tall. Numerous crepe ...