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Saturday - August 02, 2008

From: Knightdale, NC
Region: Southeast
Topic: Non-Natives
Title: Changing color of non-native crape myrtles
Answered by: Barbara Medford

QUESTION:

How do you change the color of a bloom on a crape myrtle tree?

ANSWER:

You don't. Please see this previous answer on that subject.

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