This honeydew will then eventually turn black as it is colonized by fungi called sooty mold. Crape myrtles are the most popular summer flowering tree in the U.S.

Tips Crape myrtles don't need to be pruned every year. Trim off suckers and dead branches when you see them, but otherwise limit pruning to an as-needed basis. 2. Don't prune in the spring.

The single-trunk crape myrtle is a popular street tree that grows 15 to 25 feet tall and usually does not interfere with power lines. If you have limited space, consider a semi-dwarf variety that ...

I’m seeing outbreaks of crape myrtle bark scale across Metroplex landscapes. Nothing like we faced following the wet spring of 2007, but nonetheless, enough to let us know that this foreign ...

Crape myrtles, an ornamental tree popular in landscapes throughout the state of Delaware, are prized for their beauty, exfoliating bark in shades of silver and cinnamon, and long-lasting flowers in a ...

The myrtle is quite clearly a tree—one that grows in an inelegant tangle of oft-gnarled trunks. Pedants may argue that the crape’s hydra of stems technically qualify it as a shrub.

There are crape myrtle cultivars that grow only 2 to 3 feet in height, such as Pocomoke. There are semi-dwarf cultivars that grow to about 12 feet or less in height, such as Acoma, and ...

Gardeners notice the “black mold” on crape myrtles more than the bark scale or honeydew. To get rid of the mold, you have to get rid of the inscets that started it.

SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. — Crape Myrtle Bark Scale is an invasive species from Asia, first detected in the state of South Carolina back in 2019 in Richland County. Since then, Schneider Tree Care ...

Many crape myrtle trees across the D.C. region are infested by a bug called bark scale, which leaves behind a black fungal infection. A cure is elusive.

There are a number of varieties of this crepe myrtle species, including the centennial spirit, Carolina beauty, black diamond red hot, and Muskogee varieties. The crepe myrtle tree is unique in that ...