Crepe Myrtles

This tree is a late bloomer and should fill up with blooms very soon.

White blooms on the entrance to a neighborhood

This crepe myrtle was cut really low in the Winter so it is now a shorter tree.

Just a short blog on Crepe Myrtles, my favorite tree. When you drive along just about every street in Northern and Central Texas in the late Spring, Summer, and Autumn you will see the medians and yards full of beautiful blooming Crepe Myrtles.

This picture looks pink but the bloom is actually a lavender color

This is the full lavender tree.

These trees are, in most cases, cut down in the Winter to sticks about four or five feet tall. Then in the Spring they grow like crazy filling out into a beautiful tree with the most brilliant blooms.

A crepe myrtle cut for the Winter.

These shoots come up constantly around the trees

There are blooms of dark red, lavender, white, and pink, and they bloom all Summer and Autumn. There may be more colors, but these are the only colors I see all the time. They are always stripped during the growing season of their lower runs and sprouts on their bottom branches and trunks.

This is the red bloom up close and personal.

They are such a beautiful sight on the neighborhood medians. 

These trees are native to the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, northern Australia and parts of Oceania. They are grown in warm climates throughout the world. They seem to thrive in Texas.

I love the Crepe Myrtle lined street.

This is just one more plant that brings color to the Texas landscape, contrary to the misconception people have of the brown Summer Texas landscape. Especially now that the long drought that lasted 5 years is truly gone. Texas is green and lush again.