This time of year, when we walk outside, we are immediately hit with a thick wall of Northeast Florida humidity. While most of our landscape trees and plants are drooping or having pest and disease ...
Natchez, Muskogee, Basham’s Party Pink, Sioux and Tonto crape myrtles aren’t as susceptible to cercospora leaf spot as older varieties. The fungal disease appears in late May to early June and ...
Too often, crape myrtles are cut back to bare trunks because this abuse will yield more flowers. This type of severe pruning results in a shorter bloom time, delayed flowering, weaker branching and ...
OZARK—The bright yellow ribbons dangling in the U.S. Highway 231 medians in Ozark may soon be the home of hundreds of crape myrtle trees. Ozark Public Works Director Steve Price said around 200 Tonto ...
Joellen Dimond discusses crape myrtle varieties, and Mr. D. talks about apple tree diseases. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, local horticulturalist Joellen Dimond discusses ...
Left, the winged seeds of crape myrtle; and right, an American goldfinch feeding on crape myrtle seed. (Image courtesy Gary Graves) Each year from summer into fall, ornamental crape myrtle trees in ...