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On 29/07/2025 17:40, Janet wrote:
In article <106ah8h$2k8lc$2@dont-email.me>,
Jeff@invalid.invalid says...
Six years ago I posted here about a Lagerstroemia indica 'Braise d'|et|-
which I had bought at a local nursery. It had a few flowers the
following year, but none since until this year when it is flowering
well, perhaps due to the warm spring and/or the fact that I repotted it
earlier this year. It's now about 200 cm high, having doubled in height
from when I bought it, and the flowers were well worth waiting for!
<https://ibb.co/wFyh0hS7>
<https://ibb.co/KjgcGKwn>
What a lovely thing! Do you protect it in winter?
No. The wall it's up against is west-facing, and the wall to the left is south-facing. It stays there all year round. Lagerstroemias are
deciduous and I believe they are fairly hardy (I'm in south central
Hampshire, so that will help). The RHS reckons they are hardiness H3 (-5
- 1-#C, hardy in coastal and relatively mild parts of the UK). Other
websites state they are USA 7b (to -15-#C). It depends on how much summer
heat they get - the hotter they are the more hardy they are.
There's one outside the house in NT Killerton, Devon, which is probably
at least 50 years old.
More info at <
https://www.treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/lagerstroemia/lagerstroemia-indica/>.
I didn't realise there's a national collection at Wisley. See <
https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/plantsmanship/national-plant-collections/lagerstroemia>
(the final photo is the same variety as mine).
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Jeff
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