Crape Myrtle Trees are a favorite in southern gardens and landscapes. Because of their heat tolerance, these ornamental trees bloom profusely even during the most intense, humid summer weather. Visit our Flowering Trees Department for more trees to brighten your landscape. Flowering Shrubs are often used where space is limited and trees cannot be planted. Our Small Backyard Ideas page may also offer you more landscape ideas.
Further North (in zones 5 and 6 depending on the variety), hardier crape myrtle trees may die back to the ground in winter, and re-emerge in spring.... As a result, a Crape Myrtle that is listed as growng in a colder zone and grows to a 20 to 30' tree in the South may remain as 5 to 10 foot tall shrubs or small trees in the North. But you still get to enjoy its fantastic flower clusters!
Visit this link to the University of Georgia Extension Cooperative with detailed information on planting, watering, fertilizing, and pruning crape myrtles. Crape Myrtle Culture.
