Lagerstroemia indica "New Orleans" 25/9 Restock in a mixed border

in a mixed border

this species trades broad

finely toothed

though the leaves are not known to carry any culinary or medicinal value

Long valued in East Asian gardens

Lagerstroemia indica "New Orleans" 25/9 Restock in a mixed border'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