Do you want to grow more crape myrtle plants identical to your best ones? May is the best month to use softwood cuttings for propagation. Although most gardeners purchase plants in containers, ...

Q. I would like to be able to propagate redbud trees and crape myrtles. I have tried before to no avail. Can you tell me how? A. The hard seed coat and dormant embryo of the redbud seed slows ...

Also known as "Lilac of the South" due to its popularity in zones 7 to 9, crape myrtle is a deciduous shrub or small tree that explodes with white, deep rose, or magenta blossoms from July to ...

Dear Neil: We added a Natchez crape myrtle to our landscape this spring, and it's doing very well. However, when it blooms, one of its four trunks has pink flowers. How does that happen? What can we ...

One of the great things about gardening is you don’t have to spend a lot of money to grow some excellent plants. If you have some time and patience, you can propagate a lot of different perennials, ...