Black Diamond Red Hot Crape Myrtle – 2 Gallon Pot

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Flower Color:  Bright Red
Flowering Period:  Summer to Frost

Flower Type:  Single flowers in rounded clusters

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Black, Maroon
Fall Foliage Color:  Black, Maroon

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Bark Color:  Light Brown

Attracts:  Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer – more info, Disease, Moderate Drought, Heat

Growing to 10 to 12 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet or so wide, the Black Diamond Red Hot Crape Myrtle is an ideal selection for all size landscape spaces and in large containers. It can be grown as a shrub or lower branches can be removed to form a very attractive small tree, making it an excellent choice for use as a specimen or accent in sunny home foundation plantings or landscape borders. Also makes a very colorful hedge and is spectacular in groupings. Whether planted as a specimen or in groupings, this is one plant that is sure to stand out in the landscape! A fine addition to red or black theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  5 feet apart for a solid hedge; 12 feet or more apart for space between plants

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Crape Myrtle is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

The Black Diamond Red Hot Crape Myrtle is very easy to grow. It is not picky about soil type provided the soil is well-drained. A moist but well-drained soil of average fertility is preferred. Full sun is preferred and results in heavier flower production. Light shade is tolerated but flowering will be diminished in more shade. Has shown excellent resistance to powdery mildew and is quite drought tolerant when established.