PlantFiles: Crepe Myrtle, Crape Myrtle
Lagerstroemia 'Pink Velour'

We moved into a house in Memphis that has this variety planted along a patio fence. They're still young trees and have a nice vase shape (like a miniature elm tree) when not topped and allowed to grow into their natural shape. The previous owners took cuttings and rooted a few more trees to add to the row. The cuttings look like bushes right now, but will soon assume the bare tan/brown trunks of their older source trees. Bloom period is supposed to be 120 days, but they've been blooming here even longer than that. They bloomed profusely all summer long and still have some blooms in mid-October. They are thriving in crummy Tennessee clay soil with a couple inches of good topsoil on the surface. I read in a number of online sources that this variety is supposed to get around 10 feet tall; our five year old group is around 8 feet tall already. Hope they don't get too much taller than expected or we may be pulling out every other one in the row in a few years.