A row of truly ancient crape myrtles lined the side street to the south.

A crushed shell drive, flanked by crape myrtles, curved toward the front of the house.

Crape myrtles are chiefly known for their colorful and long-lasting flowers.

"Crape myrtles are something that we shied away from for a long, long time," he said.

The crape myrtles were full of pink blos- soms.

The crape myrtles did pretty well, though, and we're hopeful of their coming back and being able to spread out by next summer."

He had been trying to run an all-purpose nursery for several seasons by growing oaks, crape myrtles and magnolias.

As luck would have it, the arboretum's introductions seem a bit closer to Zone 6 plants than traditional crape myrtles are.

Until they grow beyond reach, crape myrtles can have their branches tied in after they go dormant.

The historic districts are the site of many of the town's 2,000 crape myrtles - its official flower - and developed gardens.

When the crape myrtles had lost their color in the near darkness, Alease came out by the garage to empty and burn the trash.

In a couple of weeks, oleanders and crape myrtles will be planted between the highway and the service roads that run beside it.

(What conceivable harm have crape myrtles or boxwoods done to the American landscape?)

There are also shrubs, like boxwoods, azaleas, nandinas, and crape myrtles, around many of the plots.

Northerners, meanwhile, are jealous of the South's gardenia hedges, oleanders and luscious crape myrtles.

In his book, Dr. Francko offers tips on growing everything from southern magnolias to crape myrtles and live oaks.

Two Natchez crape myrtles, their smooth cinnamon-and-cream trunks as sinuous as muscles, flank the gate.

A young couple and a handsome boxer dog strolled down a sidewalk skirted by red crape myrtles and cypress trees heavy with Spanish moss.

As students settle into classes at Clemson University this fall semester, the pink crape myrtles are blooming as usual, but the sense of anticipation is muted.

In fact, the branches of those crape myrtles have been carefully unpruned, and their seed pods, as black and wrinkled as raisins, look a bit ratty.

On three sides we are hedged in by lilacs, crape myrtles, vitex and other flowering shrubs, and by conifers, especially Leyland cypresses.

We paused at some of the churches along Church Street, where the old cemeteries are full of flowering dogwoods and the mottled bark of ancient crape myrtles.

And everywhere there are stupendous trees - gums, magnolias, crape myrtles - and a mighty oak, a marker on an Indian trail before Columbus reached America.

All summer long - in the patches of random sunlight - waxen-barked crape myrtles add their airy blossoms of red, purple, pink or white to a landscape already dotted with magnolias.

I imagined myself wielding my pruners over a grove of tiny crape myrtles, rather than struggling to control the giant lilacs and mock oranges that now grow way over my head.

Two crepe myrtles are also apparently happy there.

The lane to the house at 2040 Potter's Road is lined by many trees, including crepe myrtles.

Crepe myrtles are also supposed to be unsuited to places where winters are harsh.

And as if to answer the great crepe myrtles caught the breeze, dancing, their light pink blossoms moving gracefully against the blue sky.

Surrounding the plants and bushes is a gravel walkway rimmed by crepe myrtles.

We pulled him off to the side, behind a row of Mr. Deece's crepe myrtles, and he told us everything.

Crepe Myrtles can be found throughout the Garden and include several dozen cultivars, hybrids, and species.

Under crepe myrtles, dogwoods and cedars are buried several Revolutionary patriots, as well as three Colonial governors.

I passed more fields and crepe myrtles, and then the Northumberland Courthouse that had been built before the Civil War.

The skeletal crepe myrtles needed pruning back, and the water in the pond looked stagnant, with trash floating dismally here and there.

Many of the azaleas, crepe myrtles, ligustrum, and camellias planted in the quadrangle were added to the campus in the 1970s.

In 1934, the Morningside Civic League beautified the neighborhood by planting crepe myrtles and dogwoods.

Cedar elms, crepe myrtles, live oaks, Afghan pine, weeping willows and bamboo create outdoor "rooms" for intimate viewing.

I broke into a run, crashing through the overgrown crepe myrtles and camellias, around the house and up the shaky steps to Joe C's back door.

This is where plants as tender as pineapple lilies, crepe myrtles, mahonias and Southern magnolias push the envelope of their hardiness zones.

The campus was an immaculate collection of modified Georgian buildings tucked amid palms, magnolias, crepe myrtles, and lobolly and long-leaf pines.

The main house and Ma'am Anna House were surrounded by a grove of orange, lemon, and banana trees with occasional ornamental crepe myrtles.

Since Bob Hodding was temporarily out of the picture, puking his guts out in the crepe myrtles lining the parking lot, I concentrated on his buddies.

Her property is dense with crepe myrtles, oaks and birch trees, and the dark shapes of them rock in the wind and water drips from branches and leaves.

The park, planted with Chinese fan trees, willows, crepe myrtles, azaleas and Confederate jasmine is part of the riverfront Aquarium of the Americas, now under construction.

But the man was there, all right, just as he'd always been - way back at the edge of the great lawn, standing beneath the bare white limbs of the crepe myrtles.

Trees include Sabal, Pindo, and Windmill palms, live oak, crepe myrtles, and various magnolia, cherry blossom and fig trees.

Crepe Myrtle Collection: Crepe myrtles are among the most commonly seen flowering shrubs and trees in Central Florida and belong to the genus Lagerstroemia.

The name itself is descriptive, as sooty mold is a black, powdery coating adhering to the leaves of ornamental plants such as azaleas, gardenias, camellias, crepe myrtles, and laurels.

They cannot quite match the lavish display that crepe myrtles make in Norfolk, Va., a city renowned for its extensive use of these splendid trees with handsome peeling red bark, but they are still lovely.

From China, Korea and Japan, Lagerstroemia indica is an often multistemmed, deciduous tree with a wide spreading, flat topped, open habit when mature.

The common crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) from China and Korea, was introduced circa 1790 to Charleston, South Carolina, in the United States by the French botanist André Michaux.