Walter Reeves explains why a river birch tree might be shedding lots of leaves and why a crape myrtle tree might be send up suckers.

QUESTION: The leaves on my crape myrtle trees are turning yellow and falling. Could the problem be a fungus, and if so, is there a good systemic product I can apply to the base of the trunk for ...

CRAPE MYRTLE CARE: Crape myrtle trees recently have shed lots of leaves due to Cercospora leaf spot, caused by the rainy weather. Susceptible trees are looking thin and less attractive now.

On Air Q: My crape myrtles may have leaf spot. They’re 45+ feet tall, and I can’t spray them. What do I do? By Ashley Frasca November 04, 2024 at 5:15 pm EST + Caption ...

Part of the leaf drop is due to a fungus causing spots on the foliage and eventual decline. This has to be ignored, as it would be too hard to spray crape myrtles for the disease, which may be a ...

DEAR NEIL: About three weeks ago our crape myrtles started dropping leaves. We’ve lived here 20 years and we’ve never seen them do this before. They were watered weekly.

A Crape myrtles are notoriously one of the last landscape plants to leaf out. That being said, I do think there will be significant damage to crape myrtles in the northern tier of our state that ...

Q: There’s white stuff all over my crape myrtle foliage and flowers. I’ve never seen it this bad. What is it, and what can I do about it? A: Powdery mildew is the culprit, and it seems … ...

A: Mechanical factors of the crape myrtle leaves could be part of the answer. By that, I mean that thick or hard-to-chew leaves would be less palatable to a Japanese beetle than thin, lush leaves.

Question: We have several crape myrtles with one of them developing a white coating at the ends of the leaves. What is the problem and cure? Answer: Should temperatures be a lot cooler, you might t… ...

Many crape myrtle trees across the D.C. region are infested by a bug called bark scale, which leaves behind a black fungal infection. A cure is elusive.