When you drive past a heavily pruned crepe myrtle tree (occasionally spelled "crape myrtle") your impression might be that someone started making a naturalistic fence from downed tree limbs ...

The neighbors might be pruning crape myrtle wrong, but that doesn’t mean you should butcher yours, too. Perhaps no shrub or tree suffers from the pruning mistreatment that crape myrtles do.

It doesn’t matter how horticulturists talk about proper pruning techniques, each year more and more trees are cut back to stubs. Standard crape myrtles have the potential to be wonderful small ...

I have a good-sized crepe myrtle that must be moved ... as long as the ground is not frozen. Before moving a tree or shrub of fair size, some earlier prep will help reduce transplant shock ...

My town has planted white crepe myrtles along every main thoroughfare so that it looks like the trees are covered with snow as we swelter in the heat of July. Luckily, we have an excellent public ...

Dear Neil: Why do named varieties of crape myrtles seem to disappear from nurseries ... The wind has caused a crack in a 4-inch branch on a hackberry tree that extends over our driveway.

Q: I’m so disappointed and very sad! Last year I planted several crepe myrtle plants in my backyard. Now, my neighbor’s lilacs and forsythia, and a shrub she calls flowering quince ...