A deciduous shrub or small tree up to 5 m tall, with showy summer blooms. Ideal as a specimen or in mixed hedges.
The crape myrtle delivers up to three months of summer bloom when everything else has finished: perfect for small gardens, narrow pavements and street planters. It loves heat, tolerates hard pruning, and its smooth bark stays decorative through winter.
Its bark peels in patches like a moult, earning it colourful nicknames; in China it has been grown in imperial gardens for 1,500 years, where it symbolised eloquence.
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