Cruising down Garnet, heading for the #30 bus at Mission and Felspar, when I find myself crossing Bayard. It’s closed off to traffic. Huh. Oh, yeah, it’s Tuesday. Must be the farmers’ market. Lots of ...

A few years ago, we put in a crape myrtle that's now about 10 feet tall and is loaded with flowers. Unfortunately, every time it rains, it bends the branches to the ground and sometimes breaks them ...

The top growth of this crape myrtle is dead, but young shoots are visible poking up from the live roots. Q: We have three crape myrtles. One is a tree type, and the other two are more shrub-sized. We ...

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 ...