Lagerstroemia fauriei Bill Cawthon and for the sheer welcome

and for the sheer welcome of the bloom

clean yellow fall color

but the effect is unmistakable: an amethyst star held out along the vine

and lean limestone soil that would defeat softer plants

Lagerstroemia fauriei Bill Cawthon and for the sheer welcomeAmong crape myrtles, Lagerstroemia fauriei is the aristocrat grown as much for bark as for bloom. A small, multi stemmed, deciduous tree from Yakushima Island in southern Japan, first brought to botanical attention in the 1950s, the species reaches a graceful twenty five to thirty five feet with a rounded, vase shaped crown. The summer flowers are white, carried in airy terminal panicles that are smaller and more delicate than the heavy trusses of the