Crape Myrtle Trees

I love this time of year in the sunny south!

No, really I do!

I'll admit it, I'm a transplanted northerner. Up north we don't have Crape Myrtle Trees. I have grown to enjoy seeing these trees in their splendor every summer!

I love the deep purple Crape Myrtle Trees. Or, how 'bout the deep rose colored Crapes? Even the white Crape Myrtle Trees are truly brilliant. Really I love them all, but I think I am most impressed by the deep purple shade we are seeing all over the north Atlanta metro area and in Woodstock too right now!

Crape Myrtle Trees are blooming all over the metro Atlanta area. Depending on their color, these majestic trees will be blooming through September and beyond.

I spent several days this past week introducing Woodstock and the Atlanta metro area to a new family relocating here from Minneapolis. During our first day visiting property, Rob said, "hey, what do you call that funny tree with the naked tree trunks?". "They're beautiful," he said! I love it when you see a whole bunch of them used in landscaping!

To northerners, seeing the Crape Myrtle Trees for the first time always conjures up a conversation. During winter months, everyone wonders what happened to the tree branches. In summer months admirers always exclaim about the beautiful colors these trees provide as well as questions about the history of the Crape Myrtle Tree.

According to my Georgia Gardening & Landscaping book, Crape Myrtle flowers are born in summer and autumn. The flowers resemble crinkled flowers with a crape-like texture. Colors vary from deep purple to red, rose and white with almost every shade in between. Although no blue-flowered varieties exist, it is toward the blue end of the spectrum that the flowers trend with no sight of orange or yellow except in stamens and pistils. The fruit is a capsule of green and succulent at first, then ripening to dark brown or black dryness. It splits along six or seven lines, and produces smalled winged seeds. The bark of the tree sheds throughout the year and many landscapers keep the trees and branches cut back until growing season.

I took these pictures today and I am sorry to say that my pictures simply do not do justice to the beauty these Crape Myrtle Trees offer the Atlanta area. You'll have to come and see for yourself.

Come to Georgia and check out our Crape Myrtle Trees blooming in full color right now!

Sara Hibbard is a licensed Realtor in the state of Georgia and specializes in introducing home buyers relocating to the Atlanta metro area. I look forward to assisting you and your family too when the time is right for you. Please feel free to reach me anytime at 770-399-8108 OR 404-660-2481. Or e-mail me at Sara@SaraHibbard.com. I'm looking forward to guiding you and your family throughout the relocation process when the time is right for you folks.