Spacing:  5-6' apart for solid hedge; 12'+ apart for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form:  Bushy, Compact, Upright

Flower Color:  Glowing Red

Flower Size:  Large clusters

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Growing to 10 to 12 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide, the Ruffled Red Magic Crape Myrtle is an ideal selection for smaller garden spaces and in containers. It can be grown as a shrub or lower branches can be removed to form a highly attractive and colorful small tree that serves well as a focal point specimen or accent in sunny landscape borders and home foundation plantings. Also makes a very colorful hedge and is spectacular in groupings. Whether planted as a specimen or in groupings, this is one crape that is sure to stand out in the landscape!

Suggested Spacing:  5 to 6 feet apart for solid hedge; 12 feet or more apart for space between plants

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Crape Myrtle variety is not reliably winter hardy, you'll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Ruffled Red Magic Crape Myrtle is very easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and as much sun as you can give it. For best flowering 6 hours or more of direct sunlight is suggested. Constantly soggy or wet soil is problematic. Has shown excellent resistance to powdery mildew and is quite drought tolerant when established.