Enduring Summer Red Crape Myrtle

Lagerstroemia hybrid ‘PIILAG-V’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub or Tree

Height at Maturity: 4-5′

Width at Maturity: 4-5′
Spacing: 3-4′ for solid hedge; 8’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Upright, Dense, Rounded

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Bright True Scarlet-Red

Flowering Period: Summer thru Fall!

Flower Type: Single flowers in large rounded to elongated clusters

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Dark Green, Red new growth
Fall Foliage Color:

Fragrant Foliage: No

Bark Color: Grey, Light Brown

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Drainage: Well Drained

Soil pH: 5.0 – 6.5

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

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

Description

If you love Crape Myrtles for their bright flowers and long bloom season during summer, you’re gonna absolutely love even longer-blooming Enduring Summer Crape Myrtles. We think they should’ve named this series “Enduring Fall” because the specimens in our gardens bloom from early summer right up to frost!

Enduring Summer Red is a prolific blooming, repeat flowering semi-dwarf Crape Myrtle that produces vibrant, scarlet-red flowers all summer long. With a light trimming in late summer the plants will rebloom in fall! The flowers stand out nicely against the handsome, glossy, dark green foliage on a tightly rounded shrub with a mature size of only 4 to 5 feet height and wide. Its smaller size makes it a good fit for smaller garden spaces. For those who garden north of USDA Zone 6, where this crape myrtle is not cold hardy, plant it in containers and overwinter them indoors.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing to 4 to 5 feet tall and equally as wide, the Enduring Summer Red Crape Myrtle is an ideal selection for smaller garden spaces, and 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 theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 3 to 4 feet apart for solid hedge; 8 feet or more apart for space between plants

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6a, where this Crape Myrtle is not 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.

Growing Preferences

Enduring Summer 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.

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Crape Myrtle trees.

How To Plant A Crape Myrtle In The Ground Or In A Pot

How To Prune a Crape Myrtle Tree the Right Way

How To Fertilize & Water A Crape Myrtle

How To Prune a Dwarf Crape Myrtle

Choosing the Right Crape Myrtle

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