Three crepe myrtles progression

Beano · Post by **Beano** » May 13th, 2020, 5:38 pm

It’s getting more pink. Very nice to see everyday.

alpineart · Post by **alpineart** » May 13th, 2020, 6:44 pm

Hi Beano , completely missed this topic . I like your plans and the progressions on these .

Cheers . Alpine

melbrackstone · Post by **melbrackstone** » May 14th, 2020, 7:25 am

Beaut trees, love the colour. I only have one CM showing anything much, and it's more yellows and golds rather than red. Fingers crossed that'll change soon.

Beano · Post by **Beano** » May 14th, 2020, 4:11 pm

melbrackstone wrote:Beaut trees, love the colour. I only have one CM showing anything much, and it's more yellows and golds rather than red. Fingers crossed that'll change soon.

I’d think you would at Redland, it gets cold enough, I used to live in Wellington Point. More in winter in QLD, than autumn. Where I lived in brisbane we had one in the garden at the unit block which always turned red and dropped the leaves.

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Beano · Post by **Beano** » May 19th, 2020, 4:35 pm

It is pretty much fluorescent now! I love this tree:

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melbrackstone · Post by **melbrackstone** » May 19th, 2020, 4:39 pm

Wow!!!!

juan73870 · Post by **juan73870** » May 19th, 2020, 7:16 pm

Awesome trunk and amazing colours. Love it!

SquatJar · Post by **SquatJar** » May 19th, 2020, 7:45 pm

Great tree and colour. It will need a beautiful pot to match it soon

MJL · Post by **MJL** » May 19th, 2020, 7:54 pm

That's a cool little tree coming along there beano! Superb colour! Thanks for posting.

Beano · Post by **Beano** » June 5th, 2020, 9:52 am

Naked:

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Beano · Post by **Beano** » June 5th, 2020, 10:01 am

I’m thinking that an oval pot would suit this tree better. I think In the long term, a nice glazed simple oval pot with straight up and down edges, in sage greeny-grey and cream glaze could be nice. Or the other colour I’ve shown below:

Image credit to CBS:

From some random online shop:

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Beano · Post by **Beano** » July 10th, 2021, 2:53 pm

Crepe number 3, cutting (before):

After:

Parent plant (before):

After:

No potted up photo, back in the mesh pot, back in the ground.

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Beano · Post by **Beano** » August 8th, 2021, 1:12 pm

Crepe 2 update:
Nice amounts of root growth this year. It was a little slow on top but I’m thinking it was just in too small a pot. It’s now back in the original pot until I find it one I think it suits better. I nearly pinched the one I had made last year which is waiting for my hawthorn but lucky for the hawthorn, it doesn’t suit the crepe!

It’s turning out to be a lovely tree. Just need a back branch still (3rd from bottom would be good).

Before repot/after trim (no other photos):

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Beano · Post by **Beano** » September 26th, 2021, 2:27 pm

Front

Back

Two years ago I accidentally shopped off the wrong back branch (there were two at one point and one had died back). I can’t get another bud to reshoot there now. If I don’t get one this year I might have to graft one on. Does anyone have experience thread grafting a crepe? Or other ways to graft a branch that might be simpler?

I put some wire on today, just for some vague shaping. Accidentally snapped off some tender buds where that gap is but there are more coming in there so it’ll be fine.

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Beano · Post by **Beano** » July 3rd, 2022, 10:47 am

I repot the 2 larger trees yesterday:
Big tree (after):

Medium size fat trunk (before):

After:

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