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

Crape myrtle cultivars have differing sizes of mature height that include dwarf (less than 4 feet), semi- dwarf (less than 12 feet), intermediate (less than 20 feet), and tree (greater than 20 ...

Four height categories now exist: miniature, dwarf, medium, and standard. The National Gardening Association currently lists 440 Crape Myrtle cultivars in its plant database.

There is no absolute "proper planting interval" for crape myrtle trees. Spacing is based on the mature size of the plants. Photo by LSU AgCenter. QUESTION: Horticulture must be like religion -- ...

Q: I have a west-facing wall that now has a couple of dwarf Alberta spruces that I want to replace with something that flowers. I'm thinking about crape myrtle. Would that be a good choice? Or does it ...

Dwarf crape myrtles mature at a height of 5 feet, medium crape myrtle cultivars grow up to about 15 feet in height and tall or tree-size crape myrtle cultivars exceed 15 feet and often grow to 20 ...

Dwarf crape myrtles are true shrubs identical to their tree-sized parents in everything but size. They add color to waning beds and borders during the dog days, spicing up the entire landscape.

I have a young Natchez crape myrtle tree. Over the past few weeks I've noticed the bark was splitting and cracking. Now it is falling off of the tree.

To avoid having to annually “butcher” a nice tree, choose a smaller, maturing crape myrtle or a more appropriate plant in size for that location.

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 ...

The crape myrtle has become the standard of medium-size trees to plant in the Louisiana landscape. Crape myrtles are easy to produce, easy to grow and very inexpensive to purchase. But sometimes we ...