A natural privacy screen can make your garden feel more secluded and give shape to borders. Wax-myrtle trees are the perfect low-maintenance choice.

When you close your eyes and think of a Southern summer garden, the first image may be an ancient live oak with low, sweeping branches, but the second image is puffs of sunset sky-colored crepe myrtle ...

the sticky leaves and black trunks take away the attractive appearance of the trees and reduce the price consumers will pay for a tree. Crape myrtle bark scale is relatively easy to identify.