We all enjoy the colorful blooms of flowering crape myrtles in the summer. But it’s those same trees that all too often fall victim to a misguided winter ritual known as “crape murder,” the aggressive ...

Apparently winter has decided it’s time to make her frigid presence known, arriving in Southeast Texas for an extended period…the entire week! Fortunately for us all, winter is most often fleeting — a ...

Crape myrtles are cherished for their eye-catching blooms and elegant shapes, yet a myth persists about their care. Many people falsely believe that severely cutting back crape myrtles to bare trunks ...

Crape murder is happening all over town. It doesn’t matter how horticulturists talk about proper pruning techniques, each year more and more trees are cut back to stubs. Standard crape myrtles have ...

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 severe ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — If you have a crape myrtle tree in your yard, you may have heard about "Crape Murder". It's when the tops of crape myrtles are cut down. Lukas Suzano with Davey Tree of ...

That’s right, the crime of chopping off a crape myrtle at the trunk is called “crape murder” in the horticultural world. That can sound harsh, but it is just common sense to you know what you’re doing ...

I am biased when it comes to crape myrtles. I just don’t love them. I find them messy; they drop tons of useless berries and flowers that blow around everywhere, and since they are non-natives, they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I usually wait until mid-January to write something on this topic but this week I saw my first severe pruning of a crape myrtle ...

I usually wait until mid-January to write something on this topic but this week I saw my first severe pruning of a crape myrtle for this dormant season earlier this month. So, instead of visions of ...