Hi Nancy, :) Thanks for the visit. Is it cooling off any where you are? Hot here!
My mom grew Rose of Sharon trees so I know they are very pretty small trees. She lavished a lot of care and chicken manure on hers, and they were planted in great bottom land soil as well. I remember those beautiful trees to this day.
Crepe Myrtles are a little bigger, about 15 feet is the maximum for the ones around town. Sort of like Carolina Cherries, here, but those are trimmed a lot to keep them from getting full height.
Here's a picture pulled from google of the Pink Velour variety, which is what these are:
http://www.fast-growing-trees.com/PinkVelour.htm
That's a completely random company but I wanted a description with a picture.
I don't know why there aren't more crepe myrtles here in southern Indiana. Almost Kentucky.
But I remember them from my 20 years spent in Georgia. When every other thing was dead or dying in the heat and fungal-enfused humidity, the Crepe Myrtles were abloom everywhere! Bless them!
They are such pretty trees, and so adapted to drought and heat, that it seems odd they wouldn't have been everywhere in the Southern tier of states. These along the parking strips in our city get very little watering and they trive. Maybe their tap root has penetrated the storm drain pipe. lol Maybe it's because they are so small a tree? There is no explaining taste in trees. Some people think of them as "messy". duh! Life is messier!
Crape Myrtles! Pretty flowers even through the hottest and driest of summers. Are those on big trees?
ReplyDeleteA good shrub/bush/small tree for the Georgia summers. We have what I call a Rose of Sharon (RosaSharn) that does the same for us here.
Nancy
Hi Nancy, :) Thanks for the visit. Is it cooling off any where you are? Hot here!
ReplyDeleteMy mom grew Rose of Sharon trees so I know they are very pretty small trees. She lavished a lot of care and chicken manure on hers, and they were planted in great bottom land soil as well. I remember those beautiful trees to this day.
Crepe Myrtles are a little bigger, about 15 feet is the maximum for the ones around town. Sort of like Carolina Cherries, here, but those are trimmed a lot to keep them from getting full height.
Here's a picture pulled from google of the Pink Velour variety, which is what these are:
http://www.fast-growing-trees.com/PinkVelour.htm
That's a completely random company but I wanted a description with a picture.
I don't know why there aren't more crepe myrtles here in southern Indiana. Almost Kentucky.
ReplyDeleteBut I remember them from my 20 years spent in Georgia. When every other thing was dead or dying in the heat and fungal-enfused humidity, the Crepe Myrtles were abloom everywhere! Bless them!
They are such pretty trees, and so adapted to drought and heat, that it seems odd they wouldn't have been everywhere in the Southern tier of states. These along the parking strips in our city get very little watering and they trive. Maybe their tap root has penetrated the storm drain pipe. lol Maybe it's because they are so small a tree? There is no explaining taste in trees. Some people think of them as "messy". duh! Life is messier!
ReplyDeleteWell, they even THRIVE, too. sheesh.. my speller is listing to the left here....
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