Largest Crape Myrtle Money Can Buy? (Austin, Howe: home, to buy, live)

[ksoviero]

I want to buy a few Crape Myrtle's for my back yard. However, I'm not the most patient person, and these tiny four foot baby trees that I see in nurseries, don't interest be in the least.

I want to buy a Crape Myrtle that's already beautiful, like this:



Does such a thing exist?

[Trainwreck20]

For possibly $10,000 or so, and then it will still have a good chance of dying. And if it doesn't, it will still struggle for some years.

[A-Tex]

You're looking at an older mature tree. No type of crepe myrtle gets that big quickly. As Trainwreck20 said, you could possibly buy a mature adult one like that for a price, but keeping it alive once planted would be another issue.

The genrral thing to remember with trees is that in the first year they sleep, second year they creep, and the third year they leap. Even with fast growing trees, there are no shortcuts.

[CptnRn]

Try Ted's Trees, they had some pretty large ones last time I was there. Also check the species carefully, some stay fairly small and others grow really huge. Lots of variety. Ted's Trees Landscape Design for commercial and residential customers

[kiacook]

Ted's Trees is great. I bought a 15' Cedar Elm and Chinkapin Oak from them. They did a great job installing them and they are thriving.

[Austin97]

I have one that is 14 years old.

Ill ask my wife, but if you can have it removed and repair the yard, Ill sell it to you for $1000 Might cost another 1000 to have it removed.

[tickledpink]

If properly fertilized, trimmed and watered they grow fairly quickly. We've been in our home for 2.5 years and our tree was planted right before we moved in. It has easily doubled in size. No one else on our street fertilizes or waters their trees and not only are their trees not blooming with flowers right now, but they are much smaller.

[10scoachrick]

Originally Posted by Austin97

I have one that is 14 years old.

Ill ask my wife, but if you can have it removed and repair the yard, Ill sell it to you for $1000 Might cost another 1000 to have it removed.

I'll bet it's more than that for a tree to be transplanted(different from just removing...by a long way!). I'd say it would cost that on either end, depending on the difficulty in digging in the new location. Which brings us to that point...that would be one BIG hole in the ground to transplant a large tree successfully.

[10scoachrick]

Originally Posted by kiacook

Ted's Trees is great. I bought a 15' Cedar Elm and Chinkapin Oak from them. They did a great job installing them and they are thriving.

You BOUGHT a Cedar Elm??? You have more tolerance for ugly than I do. Every winter I would swear the Cedar Elms in our yard and the greenspace behind were DEAD...they sure look it for two+ months of the year!

[kiacook]

Every winter I would swear the Cedar Elms in our yard and the greenspace behind were DEAD...they sure look it for two+ months of the year!

Ha, well I'm from the mid-west where we're used to our trees losing their leaves in the winter. I think they're pretty though. The bark is interesting texture, the limbs grow in funky directions and with enough water the leaves turn yellow before they fall off, reminding me of the trees back home. I also planted it in a spot where I want to get sun in the winter and have shade in the summer so a deciduous tree was the right choice. They're also very drought tolerant. I'm a fan.