Awaiting crape myrtle

[elleng]

[YDogg]

1. Enjoy!

We have a yard full and love the variety of sizes and colors.

[elleng]

4. OH MY! a YARD full!

There was/is a street in DC, on our route to/from home, where I first learned about them, but few around me here in southern MD; this one's tall, but not prolific, flower-wise.

[YDogg]

11. About 40 at last count.

A number are miniatures, about 2-3 feet tall, surrounding taller crapes. Our oldest is 30+ years old, our tallest is a Nachez crape pushing 30 feet we planted 25+ years ago. It's become a bit of an obsession that accerated several years ago when we had pines and oaks removed for various reasons. Central Florida, so nice long growing season. 😀

[Quakerfriend]

2. Me too! That one's a wonderful size.

So thankful for the thunderstorms & rain tonight.
We had started watering our -300 year old tulip poplar with the hose - so doing a happy dance with this recent storm

[elleng]

6. You mean Koelreuteria paniculata???

Koelreuteria paniculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae, native to eastern Asia, in China and Korea. It was introduced in Europe in 1747, and to America in 1763, and has become a popular landscape tree worldwide.[1][2] Common names include goldenrain tree,[3][4] pride of India,[5] China tree,[6] and the varnish tree.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koelreuteria_paniculata

Dunno!!!

[happybird]

5. We saw one earlier

Sitting out back having a smoke at work, my coworker suddenly said, “Ooo! What is THAT?”
She was pointing to the yard next to us and, lo and behold, the man who lives next door to the restaurant has a gorgeous, huge crepe myrtle in full bloom. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one that tall! Such a lovely color.

[elleng]

7. Nice! Now, I'll look closely around the neighborhood.

[happybird]

8. We don't live too terribly far from each other (MD/VA)

so yours should be poppin’ soon!

[elleng]

9. GOOD!

[Sucha NastyWoman]

12. Looks like you are not a Crepe Murderer

That is good to know.

[elleng]

13. Not I, but neither do I own the property; just rent, so

no responsibility!