Crepe Myrtle Seeds

 This morning I ordered 25 seed for my favorite tree, the Crepe Myrtle. I ordered from New Hill Farms

I ordered seeds for Purple Catawba Crepe Myrtle,

I love the Crepe Myrtle because of the delicate looking flowers that last most of the summer and the bark exfoliates adding another level of interesting characteristics. The crepe myrtle is usually a multi-trunked shrub / tree that can grow 15-20 feet tall. I don't think that I will grow a crepe myrtle bonsai that tall. Its hardiness zones are 6-10.  I'm in zone 7 so I'm in a good place. Here in Oklahoma the crepe myrtle is nearly indestructible. I have three of them growing in my yard and we have dug them up, poisoned them, cut the even with the ground and they still grow back. My crepe myrtles are all pink, my mother in law has over 20 crepe myrtles in her yard that I planted back in 1998, and they are all white. I will be getting cuttings from those later in the year but 

I also want purple ones because pink and purple are my wives favorite colors. I would love to make a dual colored crepe myrtle bonsai for my wife. I'm thinking of planting a pink one and a purple one in the same pot. Plant them far enough apart to keep them seperate trees but close enough that their branches intertwined so that you can see the pink flowers right next to the purple flowers. I could do this in one of those large cement mixing pots and grow a large forest planting with the trees about three feet tall. That would be cool. 

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