The single-trunk crape myrtle is a popular street tree that grows 15 to 25 feet tall and usually does not interfere with power lines. If you have limited space, consider a semi-dwarf variety that ...

It's one of the smallest crape myrtles, but its impact in the garden is huge. Acoma also is impressive. Its semi-dwarf, slightly weeping growth habit gives it an especially graceful appearance.

Crape myrtle blooms every spring with beautiful mauve, purple, pink, carmine, or white flowers. Requiring little care, the crape myrtle is a popular ornamental plant in parks.

Crape myrtles usually begin blooming in June and July, depending on variety, and continue blooming into the fall. Most of them develop beautiful fall color before losing their leaves for the winter.

If you want 5-feet-tall crape myrtles, plant any of the Petite Series. Introduced in the 1960s, they are still the gold standard (my opinion) of the dwarf cape myrtles.

Pocomoke This is a truly dwarf crape myrtle. It forms a dense mound only 2 to 3 feet tall and wide. Flowers are a rich pink. You simply can't go wrong planting any of these great new crape myrtles.

Pruning crape myrtles is always a hot topic, but they don’t seem to mind how you do it. (Courtesy Tom MacCubbin) By Tom MacCubbin UPDATED: January 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM EST ...

A. Dwarf crape myrtles might flourish in a large container, but the full-size shrubs to small trees are going to be much happier in the ground.

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The plants I’d been growing were dwarf crape myrtles — the Petite series. I had bought what nurseries call “liners.” They were 31/2-inch pots that I immediately shifted up into 1-gallon pots.