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James Burghardt
(Acoma Crapemyrtle, Hybrid Crapemyrtle)
The ‘Acoma’ crapemyrtle is a mildew-resistant hybrid deciduous shrub with showy white flowers and reddish purple autumn color. It is a rounded large shrub or small tree, with gently arching branches, and is best used as a specimen. To form a classic tree shape, the lowest branches must be removed. The bark is exfoliating, exposing the smooth underbark that is creamy tan and beige.
Like other crapemyrtles ‘Acoma’ should be planted in a well drained soil with an acidic to neutral range of pH. Full...
James H. Schutte
(Hybrid Crapemyrtle)
The Cheyenne crapemyrtle is a mildew resistant hybrid with brazen magenta to red flowers. Strong burgundy and maroon colored leaves herald the arrival of fall. It is a rounded shrub with dense branching and dark green leaves tinged with hints of maroon. Its bark is exfoliating, revealing a smooth, reddened tan-colored layer.
Plant 'Cheyenne' in a well drained acidic soil. Full sun is mandatory for best flowering and overall plant fullness and form. Crapemyrtles are quite drought tolerant once...
Gerald L. Klingaman
(Crapemyrtle)
Crapemyrtle is a heat-loving, summer flowering shrub to small tree that originates from China. It is best known for its large clusters of brightly colored blooms that appear at its branch tips. These dazzling flowers can be in shades of white, red, purple or pink, depending on the cultivar (of which there are many).
The glossy leaves of crapemyrtle emerge pale green to bronze in the spring, turn dark to medium green in the summer, then transition to bronze, yellow, orange or red in the fall....
Bosh Bruening
(Berlingot Menthe Crapemyrtle, Crapemyrtle)
The showy, compact crapemyrtle ‘Berlingot Menthe’ has beautiful bi-colored blooms of pink and white. A heat-loving compact shrub descended from a species native to eastern Asia, it has medium-green leaves that turn shades of red in the fall. In midsummer it bears large clusters of dark rosy-pink flowers edged in white. It has mottled red-brown bark that adds appeal to the winter landscape.
Like most crapemyrtles, it tolerates a wide range of well-drained soils and grows best in hot, sunny locations....
(Bicolored Crapemyrtle, Crapemyrtle)
This semi-dwarf crapemyrtle, 'Bi-color,' is a fairly upright, deciduous shrub that produces clusters of white and red flowers on the tips of its branches. The main flush of bloom comes in midsummer and lasts a few weeks. Afterward flowering continues sporadically until frost in autumn. Prune off spent flower clusters to promote a succeeding flush of flowers, which will start in a few weeks.
'Bi-color' tolerates a wide range of well-drained soils and grows best in hot, sunny locations. As this...
James Burghardt
(Byer's Wonderful White Crapemyrtle, Crapemyrtle)
A wonderful white-flowering crapemyrtle, 'Byer's Wonderful White' (also known as 'Alabama White' and 'Byars White') is a heat-loving, cold-hardy deciduous tree with unusually large flower clusters. It has a multi-stemmed base and an upright habit widening to a lovely broad rounded canopy. Its glossy leaves are dark green and turn shades of orange-red in the fall. In summer, it bears very large, loose panicles, or clusters, of crinkly, white flowers on practically every branch tip.
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(Crapemyrtle)
A large, upright, multi-trunked, deciduous shrub,
Candycane' produces a profusion of gently arching or pendent bi-color flower clusters. From early summer onward, 'Candycane' produces pink flowers with ruffled white edges on branch tips. Within these white edges there are deep pink veins, or "stripes". It is a heat-loving plant that has green leaves that turn to splattered orange, yellow and red in fall.
Crapemyrtle is tolerant of a wide range of well-drained soils and grows best in hot sunny...
(Crapemyrtle)
This crapemyrtle is an upright, multi-trunked, large, deciduous shrub that produces gently arching or pendent bicolor flower clusters on the branch tips. From early summer onward, 'Candystripe' produces pink buds that open as rose-pink petals with white edges. It has green leaves that emerge bronzey-red in spring and change to a splattering of orange, yellow and red in fall.
Like many crapemyrtles, ‘Candystripe’ tolerates a wide range of well-drained soils and grows best in hot sunny locations....
James Burghardt
(Crapemyrtle)
A classic, widely-grown crapemyrtle, ‘Carolina Beauty’ is a heat-loving, multi-stemmed, deciduous small tree, selected from a species native to eastern Asia. In mid to late summer it bears many loose clusters of vivid, bright cherry-red to pink-red flowers on branch tips. Mature plants have an upright, slightly fountain-shaped habit and bark that exfoliates modestly.
Like most crapemyrtles, ‘Carolina Beauty’ tolerates a wide range of soils, if drainage is good, and grows best in hot, sunny locations....
