5 Red Crape Myrtle Live Plants 12 in Tall Starter Shrub Bare Root

Red Crape Myrtle is a deciduous flowering shrub prized for its vibrant red blooms and upright, vase-shaped habit. This starter-size live plant arrives bare root at roughly 12 inches tall, ready to establish in a sunny garden border, foundation planting, or landscape bed, offering a colorful seasonal accent that grows more striking each year.
Crape myrtle delivers long-lasting warm-season color, with crinkled red flower clusters rising above green foliage that shifts to attractive fall tones. It works well as a specimen, a flowering hedge, or grouped in mixed borders, and its graceful branching adds winter interest once leaves drop. Grow it in full sun for the heaviest flowering, water regularly while establishing, and prune lightly in late winter to shape.
Species: Lagerstroemia indica
Type: Deciduous flowering shrub
Plant_Habit: Upright, vase-shaped, multi-stemmed
Sun: Full sun
Soil: Well-drained, average fertility
Zones: 6-9
Spacing: 6-10 feet apart
Germination: Not applicable
Notes: Bare root starter plants about 12 inches tall; blooms on new growth; prune in late winter for shape and bloom