A Very Southern Recruitment=A Very Carnation Recruitment!

[PenguinTrax]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I just love the names!!! Sweet Tea is precious, but those lovely Southern flower bushes!! I love them all, but oh, how I would love to have a Crapemyrtle!!

Violetpretty, there are two types of crapemyrtles which will grow in the northern part of the South (which weather includes my part of the country), but I just can't think of the name. They are the dark pink variety, that I remember.


ETA: Both the Baton Rouge and Sacramento types of crape myrtle will grow in PA. They're both a deep red/fuschia shade.
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Here in Tally you'll see crape myrtles in red, fuschia, purple, pink, and white. We have none in our yard right now, but have a couple of Southern Magnolias, an Oriental Magnolia, at least one dogwood and a couple of of redbuds in addition to a miniature gardenia, miniature hydrangeas and a number of tea olives that are getting removed this fall and replaced with azaleas.

[ISUKappa]

This Midwesterner has four hydrangeas growing along one side of her house: two white and two pink. I'm sure they're not the same hybrid as what grows in the South, but they are very pretty. If we had a different soil pH, the pink could be blue, but I don't really feel like messing with it. As it is, they didn't bloom this year because we didn't cut them back. The white are growing like gangbusters, though.

[alum]

Crape myrtles grow in the DC area. Both my next-door neighbor and the people across the street have the hot pink variety.

[Jill1228]

Congrats to all! I updated in the thread

[aopinthesky]

I know she is thrilled. You will have the whole NPC in your family before long...

[Ocalagirl]

So who all is represented in your family? Pi Phi, Phi Mu, and ZTA, but is that all? Or is there more?

[ClassicBeauty]

congrats!

so were you dropping a hint with the flower codenames lol?