Perhaps no shrub or tree suffers from the pruning mistreatment that crape myrtles do. You’ve seen the victims: majestic crape ...

Crepe myrtles—or crape myrtles and crapemyrtles if you prefer—range in size from dwarf selections that grow less than 3 feet tall to several large varieties that reach upwards of 30 feet.

Yet there is one item that deserves to be struck from our list of official state notables as it tarnishes the rest of this noble menagerie: the crape myrtle, our official state shrub. If you were ...

Now’s the time of year you’re most likely to see naked crape myrtle trees, the unfortunate consequence of improper wintertime pruning. The practice has even been given a not-so-affectionate ...

That’s why I prefer to cut my plants back to 2 or 3 inches from the ground soon ... Let me know if any of these might be too close. A Natchez crape myrtle 7 feet from concrete piers under ...

The property is a garden-only tour featuring a mature Kwanzan cherry and a majestic Natchez crepe myrtle which creates ... a crafter of wooden containers. The back portion of the parcel possessed ...

Baton Rouge has a real problem that is attacking our trees. Ball moss started collecting on crepe myrtle trees in downtown Baton Rouge a few years ago. While ball moss only attaches to the tree ...

TUPELO — Northeast Mississippians caught a glimpse of the partial solar eclipse on Monday afternoon between breaks in cloud cover. Rather than taking a trip to Arkansas, Chloe Stricklin of ...

The City of Clearwater is giving out free trees to residents tomorrow, it’s in celebration of Arbor Day.

If an emergency occurs in your community, it may take emergency response teams some time to reach you. You should be prepared to take care of yourself and your family with basic supplies for a ...