I really really like the look of crape myrtles, both blossoms and foliage. And I really really REALLY hate the suckering. If you dig one up and don't get every last piece of root, it will come back until the end of time! Still have pieces coming up under my fence roses where the contractor didn't dig deep enough or wide enough to get an old stringy clump out. Two old skinny ones by the back porch keep throwing up shoots from the base that have to be cut off every year. At some point, the plan is to remove and replace, but, for right now, the two screen my porch from view of the back neighbors in most months. If 'they' ever come up with a variety that doesn't do this, I'd have bright red ones lining the whole house perimeter!
