Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Mini Crape Myrtle For Sale

By Juana Buchanan


These miniature, darling flowering shrubs produce an abundance of attractive, brightly colored flower clusters all through the summer. They usually reach up to three feet, and are suitable even for some smaller gardens. If you are interested in finding one mini crape myrtle for sale, check out the online offer, and you will surely find something interesting there.

Lagerstroemia Indica can be a very large tree, more than thirty feet tall, but also a quite small, under two or three feet high shrub. In any case, these plants are all highly decorative, thanks to their luxurious, large flowers and very appealing, decorative barks. White, pale pink or intense red, myrtle flowers always attract attention, in any given environment.

Myrtles need to be placed on full sun. Placed in shade, they won't bloom so intensively, and their blooming might be delayed. Larger varieties are sensitive to cold, and they cannot survive very low temperatures. Minis have better cold resistance, and can be planted in more climate zones. Even so, if you live in colder area, it is advisable to bring your plants inside during winter, or at least to protect them.

Myrtles are often used as accent shrubs, small trunk trees, container plants or entryway plantings. Wonderful trunk characteristics make them interesting out season as well, but this depends on the particular variety you choose. Bright summer colors really live up a garden, and this makes them very popular among landscape designers. They should find their place in every garden as well.

They also need to have enough air to remain healthy. Placed somewhere where the air circulation is very poor, your plants might get powdery mildew. Although they are generally very simple to maintain, myrtles sometimes may have problems with white flies, sooty mold or aphids. They don't need too much water, or any special soil, but they do need plenty of sun. Even so, they don't like too high temperatures.

Don't ever overfeed your plants, but give them one moderate pruning in late winter. You can shape them according to your taste, and your garden size. Thanks to their better cold resistance, minis will survive a little bit lower temperatures, but people still rather grow them in containers. They make wonderful patio plants, and are suitable for any terrace.

One of the most popular minis is certainly Delta Blush. It has particularly decorative, light pink flowers, and it is usually used as a showcase plant in a garden. It is one of the more weeping varieties, together with Weeping Alamo Fire. This variety has incredible, intensive red clusters of decorative flowers, and it blooms in the mid-summer.

Full growth habit of this lovely variety makes Pocomoke very popular in garden design. Flowers are intensively pink, and although this one is often used as container plant, you will find it in many gardens. Another popular shrub, maybe the smallest, is called Chickasaw. Its tight growth and beautiful pink shade of its flowers make it highly popular, especially in colder environments. Its cold resistance is much better than in other varieties.




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