If the foliage of your Diamonds in the Dark® Crepe Myrtle is turning greenish, ... just as the leaf buds are starting to emerge.

Amazing Purple Blooms on a Low Maintenance Crape Myrtle - The darkest purple on a crape myrtle! - Low maintenance - Highly drought tolerant The royal purple colors of the Twilight Crape Myrtle have been difficult to find until now! in 1977, and for the last 20 years we have specialized in online sales of our Beautiful Crape Myrtles.

All have burgundy to bronze leaves from spring through fall and are expected to be mid-size, maturing at heights of 8 to 12 feet. We have numerous sizes and shades of PURPLE Crape Myrtles available for purchase online. This year Delta Jazz™, with pink flowers, is being joined by Delta Eclipse™ (purple flowers). Diamonds in the Dark® Pure White. With large, lightly fragrant flower clusters that bloom from early June until frost, it can be grown as a broad shrub or as a tree. The Crape Myrtle Company was est. Beautiful shrub Crape Myrtle form with large clusters of dark purple blooms.

Future years will see Delta Breeze™ (lavender flowers) and Delta Flame™ (red). A very vigorous grower with increased resistance to all of the more commonly encountered Crape Myrtle problems ( leaf spot, powdery mildew, etc ). He worked for many years to develop crape myrtles with strongly colored foliage that would not fade in hot weather, combined with disease resistance and exciting flower colors. Foliage is a deep, dark, glossy green when mature, but starts out with a dark reddish orange coloration when new. Diamonds in the Dark® Purely Purple. The Purely Purple™ Black Diamond® Crape Myrtle has its origins in the work of Dr. Cecil Pounder, a Research Geneticist with the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture.