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 feet).

I would like to plant some Acoma crape myrtle trees between the sidewalk and the street. Some people say the proper spacing is 15 feet; others have told me to space them 8 to 10 feet apart.

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

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 ...

A: Crape myrtles would like the afternoon sun of your west wall, and they come in a wide range of sizes - from little 3-foot balls like the 'Razzle Dazzle' and 'Filli' series up to 25-foot tree types.

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.

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 ...

Today, we know that the cambium, or actively growing, layer of cells just below the bark is responsible for a successful tree ...

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.