After flowers fall, small round seedballs form, which can be left on or cut off to stimulate a strong flush of new flowering growth. While there are a handful of insect pests that feed on crape myrtle, the plant itself is very resilient and generally blooms unfazed by this annoyance. Ov...
But Saddam had to be rescued first. The war against Iran was going badly by 1982. Iran's "human wave attacks" threatened to overrun Saddam's armies. Washington decided to give Iraq a helping hand. After Rumsfeld's visit to Baghdad in 1983, U.S. intelligence began supplying the Iraqi dic...
to Butler, who recalled his Irish-Catholic parents’ horrified reaction to Black Sabbath’s first album. But it was Bach, ever the loose-lipped wildcard, who provided the comic relief. When the convo turned to today’s metal bands and the outrageous fonts they often use to spell their ...
Our cautious driver attempts to navigate the neighborhood’s potholed streets while Pugh applies Valentino lipstick in the back seat. “Accidental reds are really powerful,” she says, unfazed by the jostling, “because you can get away with wearing them during the day. And not everyone is ...