Dynamite Crape Myrtle Size:2-3 ft. stately purple/blue flowers

stately purple/blue flowers

and other small pollinators during that narrow window when few other woody plants are blooming

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making them excellent groundcovers

As flowers fade and mature into seed heads in late summer and fall

Dynamite Crape Myrtle Size:2-3 ft. stately purple/blue flowersDynamite arrives in the summer landscape like its name suggests an explosion of cherry red that covers the canopy from mid summer through early fall in panicles reaching 6 to 14 inches in length. What makes this cultivar genuinely remarkable is the color itself: a true, clear red that held no precedent in the crape myrtle world at the time of its introduction. Earlier red flowered selections leaned toward watermelon, magenta, or murky rose, but