Enduring Summer ‘White’ Crape Myrtle

Lagerstroemia ‘PIILAG B1’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Tree

Height at Maturity: 4-5′

Width at Maturity: 4-5′

Spacing: 4-4.5′ for solid hedges; 8’+ for space in between

Growth Habit / Form: Upright Rounded

Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast

Flower Color: Bright White

Flowering Period: Summer reblooming to Early Fall!

Flower Type: Single flowers in large , snow cone-shaped clusters

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Emerge Green tinged with Red turning to Dark Green

Fall Foliage Color: Red Shades

Fragrant Foliage: No

Bark Color: Light Brown

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Drainage: Moist But Well Drained

Soil pH: 5.0 – 6.5

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought (when established), Heat

Description

If you love Crape Myrtles for their bright flowers and long bloom season during summer, you’re gonna absolutely love the even longer-blooming Enduring Summer Crape Myrtles. We think they should’ve named this series “Enduring Fall” because the specimens in our gardens bloom from early summer right up to frost!

Enduring Summer ‘White’ is a prolific blooming, repeat flowering, semi-dwarf Crape Myrtle featuring abundant and large clusters of bright white flowers all summer long. With a light trimming in late summer the plants will rebloom in fall! The flowers stand out nicely against the handsome, glossy, dark green foliage on a tightly rounded shrub with a mature size of only 4 to 5 feet height and wide. Its smaller size makes it a good fit for smaller garden spaces. For those who garden north of USDA Zone 6, where this crape myrtle is not cold hardy, plant it in containers and overwinter them indoors.

Landscape & Garden Uses

With an upright growth habit 4 to 5 feet tall and wide, the Enduring Summer White Crape Myrtle is an ideal selection for smaller garden spaces and containers. It can be grown as a shrub or lower branches can be removed to form a very attractive small tree, making it an excellent choice for use as a specimen or accent in sunny home foundation plantings or landscape borders. Also makes a very colorful hedge and is spectacular in groupings. Whether planted as a specimen or in groupings, this is one plant that is sure to stand out in the landscape! A fine addition to white theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 4-4.5 feet apart for solid hedge; 8 feet or more apart for space between trees

Growing Preferences

Enduring Summer White Crape Myrtle is very easy to grow. It is not picky about soil type provided the soil is well-drained. A moist but well-drained soil of average fertility is preferred. Full sun is preferred and results in heavier flower production. Light shade is tolerated but flowering will be diminished in more shade. Has shown excellent resistance to powdery mildew and is quite drought tolerant when established.

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Crape Myrtle trees.

How To Plant A Crape Myrtle In The Ground Or In A Pot

How To Prune a Crape Myrtle Tree the Right Way

How To Fertilize & Water A Crape Myrtle

How To Prune a Dwarf Crape Myrtle

Choosing the Right Crape Myrtle

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Really nice plants. I have bought from them several times and will definitely buy again.————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG