If you love color in your garden, this plant is a ‘must have’. Growing Purely Purple™ Black Diamond® Crape Myrtles The foliage color does not fade in the heat of summer, and it is never blemished with diseases like powdery mildew, as this plant is resistant to those diseases that plague older crape myrtle varieties. Even before the first flowers appear this plant is beautiful, because the foliage emerges in spring a rich dark red-black color, covered with a silvery sheen. These beautiful flowers grow at the end of every branch, creating a fabulous floral display. Seed heads are not produced, so you don’t even need to remove spent flowers to encourage new blooming, as you do with many other crape myrtle bushes. The flowers are a bright, vivid purple, which does not fade. Each cluster has around 14 large flowers in it, which open over a period of about two weeks. Flowers are produced continuously from mid-June to mid-October, in bunches that are almost 4 inches long and 3 inches across. Its dense, upright habit means it always look neat and attractive, but it is the stunning purple flowers – lasting for months – and the equally stunning silver-burgundy foliage – which never fades – that really makes this plant stand out. The Purely Purple™ Black Diamond® Crape Myrtle is a fabulous new plant, growing into a large shrub 10 to 12 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet across. One stunning combination that has really caught our attention is the bright purple flowers of the Purely Purple™ Black Diamond® Crape Myrtle, set off against the rich burgundy of the leaves. This has opened up many new and exciting ways to use these tough and reliable plants, and wonderful color combinations of flowers and foliage are possible. Plant HardinessĬrape Myrtles have recently put on new colors, and the foliage of a number of new varieties is deep red, and they keep this color from spring to fall. However you grow this easy shrub, you will love it, and be delighted by its fabulous colors, season after season. It has been specially bred to be resistant to powdery mildew and other disfiguring diseases common on older varieties, so it always looks good, no matter how hot and humid the summer is. It grows well in any well-drained soil, and thrives even in sands, gravels and poor, rocky soil.
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The Purely Purple™ Black Diamond® Crape Myrtle should be planted in full sun for maximum blooming and foliage color.
Dark, red-black foliage keeps it color all summer long.Stunning bright purple flowers from June to October.It is root-hardy in zone 6, so it grows and blooms well even there, and in colder zones it can be grown as a pot-plant and kept over winter in any cool, frost-proof place. It grows into a large shrub up to 12 feet tall, but with pruning in late winter it can be kept to as low as 4 feet.
This vibrant and exciting color combination makes this shrub a great addition to your garden, and it is a plant that brings color and interest month after month. The bright purple flowers are produced from mid-June to mid-October, and they stand out against the dark, deep-red foliage, which has a silvery sheen, especially in spring. The Purely Purple™ Black Diamond® Crape Myrtle is a brand-new addition to the expanding range of stunning crape myrtles with persistent deep-red foliage and vibrant flowers. We've gotta protect good ole' Mother Nature, after all. While we wish we could serve everyone, it's for the safety of native species and helps prevent the spread of invasive disease & pests. The short & sweet answer is: "United States Department of Agriculture Restrictions." Every state has their own unique USDA restrictions on which plants they allow to come into their state. You will receive email notifications along the way on the progress of your order, as well as tracking information to track your plants all the way to their new home! Why are some states excluded from shipping? Orders typically ship out within 2 business days. How does the delivery process work?Īll of our orders ship via FedEx Ground! Once your order is placed online, our magic elves get right to work picking, staging, boxing and shipping your trees. You'll find we carry young 1-gallons, up to more mature 7-gallons ranging anywhere from 6 inches to 6ft. While the industry-standard terminology is to call the sizes "Gallon Containers", that doesn't exactly translate to the traditional liquid "gallon" size we think of. Nursery containers come in a variety of different sizes, and old-school nursery slang has stuck. All tree, and nothin' but the tree! We measure from the top of the soil to the top of the tree the height of the container or the root system is never included in our measurements.
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