Do crape myrtles come back every year?

Yes, crape myrtle trees are perennials so they do come back year after year.

What is the darkest purple crepe myrtle?

The Lavender lace black diamond crape myrtle has beautiful purple-pink flowers that show their beautiful color in the summer. An even darker purple flowering crape myrtle is the Purple Velvet variety.

Are crape myrtle roots invasive?

Crape myrtle roots are non-invasive which makes them perfect trees to place at the corner of your home as a statement piece.

Where is the best place to plant a crepe myrtle?

The best place to plant a crape myrtle is in a full sun area with well-draining acidic soil.

Lavender Lace™ Black Diamond® Crape Myrtle Tree

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Product Description

Give your garden a brilliant boost with the vivid beauty that only the Lavender Lace™ Black Diamond® Crape Myrtle tree can offer.

The striking deep black foliage of the Black Diamond plant contrasts beautifully with the boldly colored pinkish purple blooms, making it a beautiful statement piece in the garden or landscape. The light lavender flower clusters will appear in early spring and last until the winter months.

Black Diamond Crape Myrtle Lavender Lace will make a unique impact as an accent plant or group 3-5 for a magnificent mass planting or flowering hedge. Growing approximately 10-12 feet tall and 8 feet wide, the flowering shrub is a perfect fit for most gardens. It stays nice and compact as a small tree and has a moderate growth rate.

Black Diamond Crape Myrtle Care

This brilliant lavender blooms will flower all summer up until fall’s first frost. For best results, grow in full sun to partial shade with well amended soil; once established, the lavender crape myrtle tree is very drought tolerant.

It will benefit from the addition of a slow release fertilizer at the top of the root ball once a year. This will help with continuous flowering. The Black Diamond series is pest and disease resistant, as well as drought tolerant and mildew resistant.

These trees are perfect for lining a driveway or fence lines. Grow across the United States in USDA growing zones 6-9.

They do not ship bare root. They are rooted in their nursery container in soil.

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Botanical Name

Lagerstroemia indica

Sunlight Full Sun

Flower Color Lavender

Foliage Color Burgundy

Mature Height 10-12 ft

Mature Width 8 ft

Growing Zones 6, 7, 8, 9

Special Features

Deep lavender blooms
Uniquely colored foliage
Drought tolerant
Great size for smaller gardens

Shipping Info

Once your Lavender Lace™ Black Diamond® Crape Myrtle Tree order is placed, we will ship your plant(s) within seven business days year round unless during the checkout process you request otherwise in the space provided to do so.

Perfect Plants’ shipping specialists carefully package your plants using a proven packaging method that ensures your plants arrive healthy, colorfully alive and ready to flourish. We’ve coined the term ‘upside down box test’ and we do just that; we carefully package so that regardless of the direction your box is handled, it will not harm your precious plant that’s inside.

No shipping process is without a problem from time to time. On rare occasions some plants may experience some of the following during their transit: drooping, minor leaf-loss and/or minimal yellowing/discoloration, minor limb damage, etc. These instances are quite rare, but can happen when shipping plants in boxes.

Plants normally recover within a few weeks after planting. If a damaged box has injured your plant on the inside, please notify us within 5 days of receiving you package(s) by emailing us a photograph of the damage.

We always do our very best to ensure that your plants are packed and shipped in the safest, gentlest and most effective way possible.

Will my plants and trees look like the photographs?

Absolutely! Unlike other online nurseries, our photos are of actual plants and trees we’ve grown here, on our family operated nursery.

Growing our own plants and trees helps to ensure we ship you the best quality plants that are free of pests and diseases.

Your plants and trees may however not ship with flowers on them, like the photographs. This all depends on the time of year you buy your plant or tree. Crape Myrtle trees, for example, only bloom during the summer months, so if you purchase one during the spring or fall, they would ship without flowers. Once planted, your plants will grow and thrive giving you flowers for many years to come!

Pot Sizes

Pot sizes (commonly referred to in gallons) are shipped in the same size nursery trade pots which may vary in actual volume. Some plants may have been at the approximate pot size listed, but require excess dirt to be removed so that you will not be paying any additional shipping costs. This doesn’t happen very often though.

Shipping Fees

Our shipping charges are based on the value of your order. Please use the chart below to see what your shipping charge will be.

Care

BLACK DIAMOND® BEST RED™ CRAPE MYRTLE CARE:

Black Diamond® Best Red™ Crape Myrtles can tolerate minimal shade, but flowering and growth will be most ideal in full sun. They grow well in most average, well-drained soil types and are quite drought tolerant but should be watered regularly during their first year until established.

Blooms develop on new growth; so spent blooms should be trimmed to allow a second or even third blooming, depending on the length of the season in your zone. Suckers, or branch growth that develops at the base of the tree should be removed.

Heavier pruning of the branches themselves should be avoided until the tree is 3 or more years old unless branches are crossing one another or growing toward structures. In which cases, they should be removed at their base.

Click here for our more extensive Crape Myrtle Grow Guide

PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS:

Dig a hole approximately twice as wide as your new plant’s root ball and deep enough so that the top of the root ball is equal with the ground level.

Loosen the root ball using a small garden spade or by hand. Breaking smaller outer roots can encourage growth into the new soil, but take care to not damage large primary roots.

Place the plant in the hole and ensure that it is situated evenly upright. Use the excavated soil to fill in around the root ball, using your foot to pack it in firmly. Thoroughly soak with a hose as you fill in the dirt. Take great care to not leave any gaps or air spaces around the root ball as this could kill the plant.

A 2-4 inch layer of mulch is strongly recommended to help retain moisture and discourage weed growth. Apply mulch over the entire planting area but keep away from the stems or trunk by a few inches. Ensure that the plant and surrounding soil is completely soaked with water.

To ensure the proper nutrients are available for the life of your Black Diamond® Best Red™ Crape Myrtle, our proprietary Perfect Plants Special Blend Soil and a once yearly application of Nutricote Total 360 Fertilizer are great considerations for your new plants!

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