Lagerstroemia indica "Bayou Marie" Richard Lynch The genus honors Georg Josef

The genus honors Georg Josef Kamel

Rising to seven or ten feet on narrow clumps

and salt are all taken in stride

sun to part shade

catches the look of the petals exactly

Lagerstroemia indica "Bayou Marie" Richard Lynch The genus honors Georg Josef'Bayou Marie' is a compact crape myrtle from the Dixie Series, a group of dwarf selections, chosen by David Chopin of Washington, Pennsylvania and introduced by Hines Nursery in California, in the same series as the purple 'New Orleans'. The flowers are the draw: abundant clusters of crinkled, crepe textured pink blooms, each petal finished with a darker red to lavender edge that gives the whole shrub a lively, two toned sparkle through the heat of