Step 1 - Water Thoroughly: "As winter approaches, give your crape myrtle a deep watering to help it withstand the dry winter months," he notes. "Especially if your area doesn’t ...

Crape myrtles are naturalized in USDA Zones 6 to 9, especially across the South ... The root system can extend up to three times as wide as the tree’s canopy. However, crape myrtle roots aren’t ...

Q : How do I save the holly tree (see reader's photo)? How best to prune the crape myrtle right on the edge to the left of neighbor's trash cans? It is too tall. Thank you so much. A ...

If you live in zones 5a to 9b ... mine as a multi-trunked small tree that I am expecting to be about the size of a redbud or medium-sized crape myrtle. Those grown as a wide deciduous shrub ...