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Best time to plant crepe myrtles?
Posted on 5/26/25 at 5:53 pm
Posted on 5/26/25 at 5:53 pm
We have two Cherokee Chief pink dogwoods that we had installed when we bought our house in 2016. They probably get too much sun and are starting to fail. Both have looked really wilted the last summer or two. Now this year one is dead on one major branch and the other shows green only on one major branch.
Wife wants to replace them with crepe myrtles to match the pair we have in the front yard (yes, I know, run away as fast as possible). If that's what we end up doing, when is the best time to plant? I'd like to get a couple of somewhat established trees from a local nursery as opposed to the little ones from Home Depot/Lowe's.
Wife wants to replace them with crepe myrtles to match the pair we have in the front yard (yes, I know, run away as fast as possible). If that's what we end up doing, when is the best time to plant? I'd like to get a couple of somewhat established trees from a local nursery as opposed to the little ones from Home Depot/Lowe's.
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Posted on 5/26/25 at 6:06 pm to PJinAtl
You can plant year round if they are in pots.
Posted on 5/26/25 at 6:26 pm to PJinAtl
Best time is the fall after the heat breaks. But you can plant year round but by now in almost June, you will need to get your watering correct, not too much and not too little. That goes for any tree, not just Crepes.
This post was edited on 5/26/25 at 6:28 pm
Posted on 5/26/25 at 6:44 pm to PJinAtl
Plant them anytime. They. Will. Not. Die.
Posted on 5/26/25 at 7:25 pm to PJinAtl
Anytime you please.....there are almost impossible to kill!
Posted on 5/26/25 at 8:45 pm to PJinAtl
if they are in pots bring them home and baby them in the shade for a month or so then plant. As the others have said they are hard to kill
Posted on 5/26/25 at 9:19 pm to PJinAtl
Crape myrtles are overdone. Plant something native.
Posted on 5/26/25 at 11:30 pm to crewdepoo
Just remember, Crepe Myrtle’s are trees, not bushes. Do you have room for a tree or a bush? If you plan to butcher them every year, get something else. I had one that grew very large and I cut it down. The shoots came up all over the yard for two years before giving up.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 12:14 am to PJinAtl
Container trees, year round.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 10:00 am to PJinAtl
NEVER!!!!
Posted on 5/27/25 at 11:38 am to PJinAtl
Crepe myrtles get a lot of abuse, but I like them. Work with a local nursery that has lots of varieties. Look for mildew(wilt) resistance and trunck color. Some have very dramatic bare trunks in winter. Check the timing of the bloom. Right now, in BTR the whites look great. I have pinks that will not show color until July. Read all you can about proper pruning... even "pros" butcher trees thinking it looks good. All that does is give you lots of bloom on an ugly tree. If you yard gets any ground freeze, mulch to prevent root freeze.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 11:53 am to PJinAtl
Cant kill em, cantt stop em, can only hope to contain them.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 2:43 pm to tigerfoot
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Cant kill em, cantt stop em, can only hope to contain them.
That's not true especially with a newly planted crepe. I've seen many newly planted crepes die from over watering usually but under watering a new crepe can also kill them. And I've seen mature ones killed by extreme heat/drought and sub 0 cold....which I know y'all don't get down there
Posted on 5/27/25 at 3:12 pm to Zappas Stache
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Best time is the fall after the heat breaks. But you can plant year round but by now in almost June, you will need to get your watering correct, not too much and not too little. That goes for any tree, not just Crepes.
got some one gallon crepes from a treegive away last june. It struggle but made it thru the Houston summer
The Vitexs i got in that same giveaway are doing a lot better
Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:53 pm to crewdepoo
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Crape myrtles are overdone. Plant something native
I can't convince my wife otherwise. She has a crape myrtle addiction
Posted on 5/27/25 at 7:23 pm to East Coast Band
We have them in the front of the house with evening sun and the shade they provide is worth the work that comes with them.
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