Washingtonians can be a compliant lot. You can move our football team to the suburbs, soak it to downtown parking meter users and turn Capitol Hill into an ultra-secure, Baghdad-style green zone. Just ...

Q: My neighbor has a beautiful pink crape myrtle. She has given me permission to take cuttings; yet, nothing so far has been successful. How do you propagate crape myrtles? A: You can root cuttings of ...