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Rusty

HoooooRaaaaay!!!

I remember you posting about it the other day. So glad it's decided to join the rest of the world!

I love a crape myrtle!

This tree has its own beat. Glad it woke up.

I'm so glad your tree is alive. We had our crepe myrtle trimmed back last year and are still waiting for new shoots and leaves to appear.

Glad it showed up even if it is late to the party!

It's the diamond in our backyard! It was such a joy to sit under last summer. I really didn't want to think about losing it.

All the positive vibes worked lol!

In my experience, crape myrtles are always the last woody plant to leaf out, so I wasn't worried about yours. :-)

What a beautifully shaped tree. In Kansas we only have them as bushes that die back to ground each winter. Would love to have tree sized.

It's beautiful.

They can be truly gorgeous big trees if they are not crepe murdered by some idiots who for some reason think chopping them off is the thing to do. It never was the thing to do! It makes them ugly. They are glorious trees when we let them live as nature intended. Unfortunately at some point in this one's life it was Chopped. But thank God that was stopped! The 2 I had at my previous flood house had never been Chopped. I drove by it recently and omg they have Chopped the one right outside the kitchen window. I almost cried.

We must spread the word!

https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/publications/stopthecrape.html

Fantastic news! Gorgeous tree!

Awesome! I feel that way about so many things (I left zone 8 tubers in the ground and they're back. Baptisia seedlings that are barely a year old came back...), but I sure do understand the feeling. Enjoy!

Great article and pictures of a huge magnificent crape myrtle in Shreveport Louisiana. Called Bayou View.

https://dcreechsite.com/2017/01/05/lagerstroemia-fauriei-bayou-view-is-this-the-national-champ-or-not/

That is wonderful raven! Ours won't wake up for another month here.

Bayou View images are is truly inspiring and breath-taking! Wow!!! Just wow. I don't know if I could grow one that large here. I wish.

Yay! Happy for you! I'm still waiting to see how all my new plants we planted last year (new yard) fared thru the winter.

We do have one pathetic little dogwood tree my husband planted that looks dead... hoping it's just late to the party too.

Glad your tree is showing life. My crape is the last to put out any leaves and the last to bloom. I have moved it to 3 locations and it just sits there doing nothing. I don't think it is the type that grows well in CA.

Crepes are one of the hardiest trees and beautiful too.

I think the problem is they get planted in locations too small for their size. How sad to see a Crepe that had been "murdered", they end up looking like they have a horrible case of arthritis.