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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Today's Flowers: Crepe Myrtles

I thought I'd feature the Crepe Myrtle trees that are blooming around town.
I shot the crepe myrtle above when I was at a doctor's appointment this week and the one below when I was at the grocery store. My crepe myrtle trees are like the watched pot that takes forever to boil. I took the shot below, this morning, of the one blossom so far on the one in my back garden. The one in front of my house hasn't started blooming at all yet. Interesting how far behind they are from the ones around town.For more participants, please visit the home of today's flowers.

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Crepe Myrtles, I don't think I've seen them before..but they do look lovely :) with all their lovely blooms turning towards light upwards :)

Ebie said...

I've seen them around and they are lovely!

Cezar and Léia said...

What a beautiful post!Magnificent trees, thanks for sharing.
God bless you
Léia

Randi said...

What a beautiful a tree! Unfortunately we don´t have them here in Sweden. I love blooming trees.

This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...

Carver: They are a beautiful tree.

jabblog said...

Pretty trees - we don't have them in UK either.

Carletta said...

When we lived in Virginia these were everywhere. I love them but I don't see many here in my area of WV. I've seen folks cut them way way back and thought they would never bloom again - they did to my surprise.
I'm sure yours will be in full bloom soon.

My post is here: Carletta’s Captures.

VALKYRIEN said...

What a wonderful tree to have in your garden! They look magnificent when they bloom!

Beautiful post for Today's Flowers!
Have a great week!

Dr.John said...

That's true here as well. The plants in my yard are behind the plants on the other side of town.
Great pictures.

SquirrelQueen said...

I don't think I have seen a Crepe Myrtle since I move to the West Coast. They are all beautiful.
SQ

Happily Retired Gal said...

This is a new plant to me, but I love the blossoms ;--)
Hugs and blessings,

SandyCarlson said...

Those sure are lovely!

Regina said...

Lovely captured.
I have snapshots of a flowering trees around here but not so good as these.
Nice post.

MaR said...

I have seen crepe myrtles in Chile but only in pink...and never in Spain!
Your shots are wonderful.

Luiz Santilli Jr said...

Carver

Wonderful and lovely flowers.
Your post enrich TODAY'S FLOWERS!

Luiz

Daryl said...

What beautiful bushes/trees ..

Anonymous said...

i have never seen a tree like this in the past. it is so cool. i love how red its flowers are, like it has bled to produce them!

NatureFootstep Photo said...

That was very beautiful flowers. :)

NatureFootstep said...

hi carver, I can teach you swedish, or if you wan to visit often I can write in both languages. (big grin)

or were you supposed to visit my english version with fotochallenges?
www.metrobloggen.se/nfphoto
btw, never appologise for your language :)

Glennis said...

Crepe Myrtle is a lovely shrub not often seen in our town. But there is a lovely red one opposite my house and a pink one in town by the taxi stand. Not many others.
Yours are lovely.

Viola said...

Beautiful Myrtle trees! Thanks for the having a look :)

Ayie said...

are those from your garden? too many blooms!