Many people don't know much about crape myrtle, except that it's a roadside greening tree species, and they don't know anything else. Flowers give you a brief introduction!
Crape myrtle flowers are widely distributed in Asia, Australia and other places. They are beautiful and gorgeous. They are also known as "red flowers in summer with green eyes".
Because it can last for three months, it's also called 100 sun red.
Its most unique place is that there is no bark. The epidermis of the trunk will fall off every year and become fresh and smooth. When it gets old, it will not regenerate the epidermis, so it is also called skinnless tree.
Touch the trunk with your hand, the branches and leaves will shake and tremble immediately, or even make a faint cackle, which is its "ticklish" response, this phenomenon is really amazing, people call it "ticklish tree".
Crape myrtle is not only purple, it can also be light pink, gentle coral color, elegant white, no matter what color, it is a lovely fairy!
Crape myrtle has strong resistance and low requirement for soil. It can be planted in the field as long as it is not too poor; it is best to use fertile and deep sandy soil for potting, which can be mixed with garden soil and river sand.
Crape myrtle flowers like sunshine, which is a positive tree species. Therefore, it is necessary to keep sufficient sunshine all the year round, and more sunshine, but it can also grow in semi shade environment.
Crape myrtle can resist drought and waterlogging, and its water and fertilizer management can be extensive. It can be watered 1-2 times before sprouting in spring, and keep the soil moist during the growth period, but it can't accumulate water; it can be watered once after falling leaves in autumn, and it doesn't need to be watered again after frost.
The flower buds of Lagerstroemia indica are all formed in the same year. In the early spring, some mature organic fertilizer should be applied. The content of P and K is sufficient to facilitate the formation and differentiation of flower buds.
From May to June, applying a small amount of nitrogen fertilizer is beneficial to the blooming of flowers and prolonging the flowering time.
After the leaves fall in autumn, cut off the dead branches, disease and insect branches, and clean up the leaves falling on the basin surface.
Because the flower bud of Lagerstroemia indica grows on the top of the new branch in the same year, the annual branch should be cut back again during pruning, and the whole branch should be kept about 5cm long, so as to promote flowering in spring.
New branches can't be cut in spring, or they won't bloom in that year.
