Lagerstroemia indica "New Orleans" 25/9 Restock and shelter from harsh afternoon

and shelter from harsh afternoon sun

Long valued in East Asian gardens

and a conversation piece for the cook who wants limes off the branch

in a mixed border

Buttonbush

Lagerstroemia indica "New Orleans" 25/9 Restock and shelter from harsh afternoon'New Orleans' is a purple flowered dwarf crape myrtle from the Dixie Series, a group that Michael Dirr, in his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, describes as the miniature weeping crape myrtles for their low, softly cascading habit. The summer flowers are the rich violet purple that gardeners rarely find at this small scale, crinkled and crepe textured, borne in profusion across a mound of no more than two to three feet. Crape myrtle belongs to the