#Crepe Myrtle

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[stylewithbuki]

[heaveninawildflower]

Watercolour painting on paper of Crepe myrtle (19th century).

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

[shilohsylvanian]

One of my favorite bears 💕

[nearlydark]

The fall colors are vibrant this year in suburbia 🍁🍂

[bunnymajo]

Art Fight Art of Zara-Ra for @julie-su

Whenever I think of Zara-ra I think of Crepe Myrtle trees, they can mean life, luck & grace but they're also resilient plants that always grow back no matter how harsh the seasons treat them - also they're an incredibly vivid pink!

[conservethis]

Some photos from my second trip to Washington DC.

[david6of7]

Crepe Myrtle

Photography by David Velez

#davidvelez #david6of7 #photograph #originalcontent #crepemyrtle #ruffly #flowers #crapemyrtle

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[the-diary-of-vivienne]

[breezyphotos]

[horsesarecreatures]

Attempting to start crepe myrtle from seed. In October I collected seeds from various plants I liked on my walks with the dogs, including American dogwood, eastern redbud, crepe myrtle, arrowwood viburnum, some type of magnolia, American beech, black walnut, Joe Pye weed, rose mallow hibiscus, and horse chestnut.

Most are still stratifying in the fridge, but crepe myrtles don't need as long of a stratification period. After soaking them over night I decided to try and start them 2 different ways, in soil and on a paper towel. We'll see what happens. I've heard that they have low germination rates. I also noticed that when I soaked them some seeds floated to the top while others sank. Hopefully they're mostly still viable because they were picked fairly recently.

The shrubs I picked the seed pods from were a very hot pink, almost red. But they may have crossed pollinated with other crepe myrtles nearby. I wouldn't mind to get a mix of colors. If they germinate I will plant them down the shore because seem to do well in coastal areas.

[alcnfr]

Another look at a Crepe Myrtle blossom, I am very fond of them...