Pink crape myrtle tree

Crepe myrtles (Lagerstroemia) deliver showy summer flowers, attractive bark, and brilliant fall color. Get our guide for planting and caring for this classic tree.

Crepe Myrtle

Learn how to plant, care for and prune crape myrtle trees. Explore the many types and sizes and discover which ones are best for your garden. Get advice for watering and fertilizing crape myrtles and learn reasons why your tree might not be blooming.

Crepe myrtles drop flowers, leaves, seeds, pods, and bark, so they can make a mess of nearby areas. Here are the worst places to plant a crepe myrtle tree.

Seen all over the south, crepe myrtle is a very hearty, cheerful species. Trained as a tree, it can line a walkway without grabbing the pedestrians when you

The Crape Myrtle company offers over 50 varieties of Rare and Difficult to Propagate Miniature, Dwarf, Medium and Standard (Tree) Crape Myrtles for Sale. We are the ORIGINAL inventors of the Miniature Crape Myrtle.

Crape myrtle care

The Tonto Crape Myrtle is a perfect choice if you want a colorful, small tree for yard borders or hedging. This hybrid grows to about 10 ft. tall and will bring bursts of soft-textured, fuchsia pink blooms to your yard from summer until fall. It experiences about 75-days of beautiful, dark pink blooms in the summer and in the fall its leaves turn a bright maroon or yellow. The reduced stature of this multi-branched shrub or small tree is perfectly scaled for smaller residential gardens. Like…

Organizers hope the Natchez International Crepe Myrtle Festival, June 21-22, will rival the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., and fall foliage tours in New England.