crepe myrtle

The girl was quite as tall as her aunt Pelagie, with dark eyes that reflected joy as a still pool reflects the light of stars; and her rounded cheek was tinged like the pink crepe myrtle. Mam'selle Pauline kissed her and trembled.

There is a back deck area that has large trees for shade and crepe myrtle and rose of Sharon bushes planted for color.

On the branches of the crepe myrtle, tight leaf buds are clinging beside the husks of last summer's berries.

A large crepe myrtle tree obscures most of the front of a ramshackle 3,200-square-foot brick structure built in 1925 that has been a city hall, a fire station and a residential building.

Lagerstroemia indica (Crepe myrtle), which is rarely grown in the UK but quite suited to our climate, is a multi stemmed shrub/small tree with beautiful bark and glossy green foliage producing a profusion of crepe paper like flowers in colours from light pink to deep burgundy.

Crepe myrtle is a highly decorative small ornamental tree that is increasing in popularity.

My mother passed away twenty years ago and I had not thought of this story in ages, hut the crepe myrtle blossoming on the streets of the town in North Carolina where I then lived made me think of my mother and her love of lilacs.

The stories and folklore surrounding the storm flourished for decades--a woman found a baby in a crepe myrtle, a cow flew upside down, etc.

The Wilemans Belle Isle Neighborhood Association is flush with trees and shrubs such as crepe myrtle and is generously willing to suggest how to care for them.

Caption: A carbon-sampling device placed beside a crepe myrtle plant measures carbon escaping from the soil.

The mix of shapes and sizes includes cascades of wisteria blossoms, hardy orange and crepe myrtle trees covered with white flowers, tiny primroses and tall asters.