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    From Jeff Layman@Jeff@invalid.invalid to uk.rec.gardening on Tue Jul 29 14:10:41 2025
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    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>
    --
    Jeff

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  • From Janet@nobody@home.com to uk.rec.gardening on Tue Jul 29 17:40:51 2025
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    In article <106ah8h$2k8lc$2@dont-email.me>,
    Jeff@invalid.invalid says...

    Six years ago I posted here about a Lagerstroemia indica 'Braise d'+to
    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?

    Janet
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  • From Jeff Layman@Jeff@invalid.invalid to uk.rec.gardening on Tue Jul 29 18:38:15 2025
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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).
    --
    Jeff
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