I've got about 9 crepe myrtles, primarily from cuttings growing. Mostly a laven
er color, but a red and a white as well. Also a Fig tree which has fruited qui
e well this year, and a lone Oak from seed. It was a giant acorn, size of a go
f ball.
Some crepe myrtles came with the house. About 7 of them. Most of them are white. A couple are pinkish, and one is more purple/lavender. I did not realize how nice they smell until I bought this house. One of the white
ones was a tree. The wood has a lot of water in it, so they freeze easily.
About 4-5 years ago, the tree froze and most of the limbs died off. It
came back from the roots as more of a bush, and a funny looking one at that.
That is one thing about them, when they freeze and die back, they sometimes come back looking pretty wild.
I've a few i need to try and get started here pretty soon as well. A few more
vocado and some peach.
I don't think either of those grow well here. When I was a kid, my parents bought a house that had two peach trees in it. One of them did not fruit
much, but the other one grew a *bunch* of fruit that would grow to about
double the size of a crabapple and then fall off the tree green. About all that !@#%#@$ tree was good for was drawing yellow jackets into the yard.
It was a pain in the rear to mow around when they were swarming about.
Luckily we finally cut it down.
My father wanted a garden so they moved the other one. It never seemed to
grow as many leaves after that. It usually looked pretty sorry compared to
the other one but, after the move, it did grow some actual peaches some
years. They would grow to full size and actually be edible.
Mike
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