Dwarf Crepe Myrtle Varieties. Dwarf myrtles include cultivars that are less than 4 feet tall when fully grown. These smaller crepes give all the brilliant color of their taller cousins, ...

If your crepe myrtle grows too big for its spot, move it to where it has more room. Or replace it with a dwarf or semidwarf selection. Prune only to maintain natural form.

Newly developed dwarf crape myrtle trees produce flowers without any pruning, however, light, judicious pruning produce larger flowers with more profuse blooms.

Homes & Gardens; Gardening news and notes: Dwarf crape myrtles perfect for a small space; urban landscape in Japan; gardening with kids. Updated: ; Jun. 19, 2013, 11: ...

The plants I’d been growing were dwarf crape myrtles — the Petite series. I had bought what nurseries call “liners.” They were 31/2-inch pots that I immediately shifted up into 1-gallon pots.

Crepe myrtles, Lagerstroemia indica, vary in size from dwarf shrubs to multi-trunked and single-trunk trees growing to 30 feet tall. Most varieties produce beautiful blooms starting in spring or ...

They can range from small, with dwarf crape myrtles growing less than 4 feet, semi-dwarf staying less than12 feet, intermediate growing no more than 20 feet, to tall trees that grow more than 20 feet.

By George Weigel/The Patriot-News Q: I have a semi-dwarf crape myrtle. I'd like to keep it small since it's between two other bushes. When is the best time to trim it? A: You could do a light ...

I would like to plant some Acoma crape myrtle trees between the sidewalk and the street. Some people say the proper spacing is 15 feet; others have told me to space them 8 to 10 feet apart.

Walter Reeves answers Atlanta-area lawn and garden questions, including Japanese beetles' crape myrtle leaf preferences, and dwarf mondo grass getting long.