In the past, it was true that you pruned crape myrtles to reduce powdery mildew infestations. With the breeding of plenty of ...

When crape myrtles are cut back hard every year, it is a pruning technique called pollarding. In most cases, this annual ...

Timing is everything when it comes to pruning a crape myrtle. So when is it too late to prune crape myrtles if you want blooms in the summer? Along with not cutting off next year’s flowers ...

Somehow, the belief that crape myrtles should be brutally pruned by cutting off their tops persists, even though it's inaccurate. Crape murder is a term that has been coined to describe this ...

The controversy I'm referring to is the pruning -- or shall I call it the annual butchering -- of crape myrtles. This happens almost like clockwork. I was speaking with a nursery friend of mine ...