Guide to Selecting A Crape Myrtle | NatureHills.com

Crepe myrtles. Let's look at the amazing selection of colors available in different shades of pink, red, purple, and white and the versatility of the different size plants available to be grown as either tree or multi-trunk shrub. Pick the right plant to suit your landscape or containerize to beautify your patio. Man, the watermelon red crepe myrtle. This is one of the most popular of all the crepe myrtles. Definitely the one that's probably been around the longest as well. Tree form, shrub form, crepe myrtles can be done a whole bunch of different ways. Adapted to a wide range of climates. Definitely drought tolerant, so it's a great variety for dry climates. And here's a plant that can be grown as a tree, as a shrub, with these beautiful pink puffy flowers that are there from the spring into the late summertime. You want those red blooms to really pop, the dark to black foliage of the new Magic and Black Diamond series crepe myrtles scream for attention. These are available in a variety of different heights with great disease resistance. Not much beats the explosive dark red of the dynamite crepe myrtle. The most popular of the tree form selections. Man, the crepe myrtles are so versatile. This one of course has grown with a little bit of a pedestaled trunk. What a gorgeous canopy this is with this beautiful raspberry flower. The ever-popular color pink really pops against the dark to black foliage of the Magic and Black Diamond crepe myrtle series. Not to mention their wide range of adaptability, assorted heights, and great disease resistance. Then from the breeches of dynamite comes the pink velour, but the pink tuscaroras tops and trees. Purple crepe myrtle, I mean what more beautiful plant could you have in your yard? Easily kept six to eight feet tall, wonderful display of purple flowers in the spring and into the late summertime, adapted to a wide range of climates, drought tolerant. This is the perfect landscape plant for a great floral accent. Purple blooms add mysterious highlight to the dark to black foliage of the Magic and Black Diamond crepe myrtle varieties. Absolutely striking in any garden. One of the most popular of the purple crepe myrtles as a tree or small shrub, Zuni is widely adapted. Here we go, a white crepe myrtle. Really beautiful display of flower in the spring and into the late summer, and this one of course is in a container. Crepe myrtles are excellent container plants. This one in a multi-trunk specimen, more like a bush. Because they are so adaptable, because they are so drought tolerant, they do incredibly well in containers and make this very very dynamic look in the landscape. Black Diamond's pure white blooms erupt like a volcano or a coma's compact blast of white in the landscape, but nothing displays like the bold beautiful white blooms of Natchez that towers above all other crepe myrtles. Another prized feature of the crepe myrtle is the wonderful smooth trunk and exfoliating bark. This brings nothing but beautiful artistic character to the landscape. And finally, the beautiful fall color display on most crepe myrtle varieties. Check out the wonderful crepe myrtle selection at naturehills.com