Pruning your crepe myrtle into a multi-trunked or single-trunked tree enhances its autumn and winter interest by highlighting the plant's structure and multi-colored bark. Follow this guide for ...

How to prune crape myrtle is always a popular subject whenever I make a presentation about pruning trees. The discussion always centers around how far back you should prune them. Unfortunately ...

Pruning like this may shorten the life of the tree. Horticulturists call the lopping of crape myrtle limbs 'crape murder.' Topping crape myrtle trees is certainly not, and never has been ...

This improperly pruned crape myrtle tree has undergone “crape murder,” which is when the entire crown of the crape myrtle tree is cut off. Courtesy of Leaf & Limb, a Raleigh-based tree care ...

Question: Lots of shoots are growing from the base and among the limbs of a tree form crape myrtle. Can I remove these to allow yard work? Answer: Do the needed pruning to make your crape myrtle ...

This quick pruning approach causes severe injury to the tree by weakening and damaging ... meaning branches can withstand wind gusts. Crepe Myrtle Bark Scale is a small insect that appears as ...

If you will be planting a new shrub or tree, be sure to give ... If you would like to encourage your crape myrtle to bloom repeatedly throughout the summer, prune off the blooms once they fade ...

The first case of improper pruning is an example of what is ... unattractive tree. The tree pictured is a crape myrtle that has been topped many times. Often the topping cuts are performed because ...

A crape myrtle tree lacks a taproot ... a growth regulator that stops suckers from sprouting from roots and pruning wounds for up to six months. To use on root suckers from crape myrtle and ...