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Crape Myrtle - Purple
The Purple Crape Myrtle is ideally suited for formal or informal design in the home landscape, street plantings and community plantings. The Purple Crape Myrtle, 'Lagerstroemia indica "Purpurea", is a handsome, summer-flowering, deciduous small tree or shrub. It is a favorite among Southern gardeners because of its beauty and low maintenance. It can be planted as a specimen or in groups, and looks attractive when underplanted with a ground cover. After flowers fade and fall from the tree, fruit remains in the form of small brown capsules. Crape Myrtle are easy to grow and if they are used for hedges, plant them 4 ot 5 feet apart. These fruits remain throughout the winter providing winter interest along with the attractive, exfoliating bark which peels away to expose a trunk which ranges in color from many handsome shades of brown to gray. Large clusters of purple flowers appear on the tips of new branches beginning in early summer and continue into fall. The crape myrtle is valued mainly for its long period of striking summer flowers. Crape myrtle leaves are oval and 1 to 2 inches long; they are bronze-colored when they first unfold in the spring and become yellow, orange or red before falling late in autumn. ... additional information
Sugarberry Leaves are glossy to dull green leaves (2-4” long) and have a yellow fall color. The trunk diameter ranges from 1-3' and the mature gray bark develops a warty texture. Sugarberry trees are basically a southern version of common or northern hackberry. The Sugarberry tree differs from common hackberry because the fruits are juicier and sweeter, bark is less corky, and leaves are narrower with mostly smooth margins. |
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