Typically only grown in the south, now northern gardeners, to Zone 6, can enjoy Crapemyrtle! Clusters of rounded buds resemble berries then burst open to salmon-pink ruffled flowers on dark rosy stems. Superb darker olive-green foliage is tipped with rosy red. For much of the growing season, Lagerstroemia is a superb foliage shrub with its shorter, rounded habit. Blooms on new wood for reliable flowering year after year. Our southern growers, without winter die back, can expect mature height to be taller.
