Bellini Raspberry Crapemyrtle
Lagerstroemia indica 'Conlagras'
Star Roses and Plants
Bellini® Series
$48.00
This beautiful dwarf crapemyrtle produces volumes of rich, rose-red blooms, over dark green, glosy foliage; early blooming, and has excellent mildew resistance; a captivating focal point for the garden or border; also good for container planting
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Bellini® Raspberry Crapemyrtle is a dense multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a mounded form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with les refined foliage.
Ornamental Qualities
Bellini® Raspberry Crapemyrtle is clothed in stunning panicles of rose frilly flowers with red overtones at the ends of the branches from late spring to late summer, which emerge from distinctive dark red flower buds. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The glosy oval leaves turn orange and yellow in fall.
Planting and Growing
and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years., Bellini® Raspberry Crapemyrtle will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necesarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate
acidic soils to ensure succes, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. To help this plant achive its best flowering performance, periodically apply a flower-boosting fertilizer from early spring through into the active growing season. It is very fusy about its soil conditions and must have rich, This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun to partial shade
Deer Resistant
Keep moisture level average to moist
4'Hx4'W
Flowers are rose & red
Flowers from late spring to late summer
Attracts bees; butterflies
Fall color is orange with yellow
Known to be safe
Tolerates wet ground.