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I would like to plant some Acoma crape myrtle trees between the sidewalk and the street. Some people say the proper spacing is 15 feet; others have told me to space them 8 to 10 feet apart.
Acoma is a white-flowered hybrid with pendulous branches. It can be grown as a large shrub or small tree up to 15 feet tall. Acoma is a white-flowered hybrid with pendulous branches.
'Acoma' is a smaller, more cold-tolerant version of the popular 'Natchez' crape myrtle. If trained into a single-stemmed tree form, the weeping nature of 'Acoma' shows off billowy flower clusters ...
‘Acoma,’ ‘Hopi,’ and ‘Zuni’ are small trees and will grow 7 to 10 feet high. ... It is important not to prune the tops of crepe myrtle trees to make them bloom.
Crape myrtles, Lagerstroemia spp., are deciduous shrubs or trees native to southeastern China. The crape myrtle, Lagerstroemia indica, was introduced into England in 1759 and met with dismal ...
Crape myrtle cultivars have differing sizes of mature height that include dwarf (less than 4 feet), semi- dwarf (less than 12 feet), intermediate (less than 20 feet), and tree (greater than 20 feet).
Medium crape myrtles (up to about 15 feet tall) are perfect as patio trees. Good cultivars of medium crapemyrtles include Hopi (pink flowers), Acoma (white) and Catawba (purple).
The crape myrtle has become the standard of medium-size trees to plant in the Louisiana landscape. Crape myrtles are easy to produce, easy to grow and very inexpensive to purchase.
Crape myrtles bloom on new growth, so prune them in early spring before they break dormancy. Prune to remove limbs and twigs that are growing back toward the center of the tree; to remove limbs ...
To fix the lack of blooms on your crepe myrtle, you need to make sure that you give the tree the nutrients that it needs. Ideally, you want to look for a fairly balanced fertilizer with an NPK ...
First reported in Texas in 2004, crepe myrtle bark scale has spread to a number of Southern states where crepe myrtles are popular landscape trees, including Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North ...