Crape Myrtle in the Japanese Garden — What Gardeners Get Wrong About This Summer Tree

Crape myrtle — Sarusuberi in Japanese — is one of the few trees that flowers through the heat of summer. Its smooth peeling bark, superstition history, and pruning controversies make it one of the most misunderstood trees in the Japanese garden.

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