Cape Myrtle Shrub

They are available in several sizes from 2 foot shrubby dwarf varieties to towering trees offer many colors from white to shades of deep red and purple and can be grown as single or multi trunk specimens. Crape myrtle or crepe myrtle trees provide year round interest and color with their showy summer blooms colorful fall foliage and attractive winter bark.

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Cape myrtle shrub

Pruning is most important during the early years of a crape myrtle s life to create the shape you desire. It can be grown in any similar climate but in the united states is suitable only for florida southernmost texas south louisiana coastal southern california and hawaii. Speciosa grows only in the tropical south.

Remember crape myrtles are multi stemmed shrubs. Magnolia tree 1 nectarine tree 12 peach tree 15 persimmon tree 3 pomegranate 3 redbud tree 1 spruce tree 2 your selection. Remove branches smaller than a pencil s thickness then prune for good branch structure.

Crape myrtles are great for landscaping ground cover hanging baskets bonsai shrubs privacy hedges and. Ornamental trees 12 black diamond red hot black diamond crape myrtle. Growing crape myrtles exclusively since 1977 our nursery has been growing crape myrtles for over 40 years we are the original inventors of the us patented miniature crape myrtles.

View top sellers in. These plants are deciduous and have oblong green 2 to 4 inch long leaves with larger plants having larger leaves. Spring hill nurseries 3 in.

Depending on the cultivar crape myrtles range in size from 18 inch shrubs to treelike forms growing up to 40 feet tall and 15 to 25 feet wide. Queen s crepe myrtle l. Price high to low.

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