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Tonto Red Crape Myrtle 

Tonto Red Crape Myrtle

Lagerstroemia indica 'Tonto'

Size:
3-4 ft.
Qty:
Price:
$49.97
Buy 3 for $44.97 each
Buy 6 for $42.47 each
Buy 12 for $39.97 each
Cannot Ship to AZ

Planting Details
Growing Zones: 7-10
Height: 8-15 ft.
Width: 6-10 ft.
Growth / Year: 3-4 ft.
Sunlight: Full - Partial
Blooms: Summer
Spacing: 4-6 ft.
Botanical: Lagerstroemia indica 'Tonto'
Crape Myrtle Planting Directions
Compact Crape Myrtle with Vibrant Red Blooms

  • Easy to grow
  • Adapts to various soils
  • Great disease resistance
  • Fast growing small tree
A dependable explosion of bright fiery red blooms will come around every summer and brighten your world.

Tonto is richly green leaved in summer, and dark maroon for fall color.
Tonto crape myrtle won the Georgia Gold Medal (1996) and Mississippi Medallion (1999) for faithful, long lasting beauty and resilience in hot climates. Offers a powerful punch of color into a small space. For best flowering - plant crape myrtles in full sun.

This is the perfect tree for adding glorious color to a small yard.
Prepare to enjoy amazing beauty of Tonto Crape Myrtle. One of the last trees in your yard to loose its leaves, Tonto is also the least likely to fall prey to flower spotting in crape myrtles.

Your new Tonto Crape Myrtle will arrive with an excellent root system.
We practice due diligence pruning at Brighter Blooms Nursery to develop Crape Myrtle trees with vigorous root systems and well-branched heads. This is an added effort on our part to make sure that every customer is the recipient of an easy to grow Tonto Crape Myrtle that will reward you with flowering beauty right away.

Customer Reviews

Connie Horn
I was absolutely delighted when my Tonto Crepe Myrtle tree arrived last fall. Talk about root system being strong. I could not have gotten a specimen like this at any local nursery. I am now waiting very patiently for the spring so I can watch it grow.

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