Red Rocket Crapemyrtle

Red Rocket produces huge cherry red flowers in throughout the hot sunny summer conditions, blooming from July to September. Red Rocket is considered one of the fastest growing crape myrtles growing up to 5 feet per year. This all-season tree adds ornamental value to your landscaping year round with new growth being attractive crimson red, unique bark, showy flowers, and fall color. The deer resistant plant makes a good stand alone plant or as part of the mixed border. Does best in moist or well drained soils. Once established is drought tolerant and requires little watering making it a good water-wise choice., Height 10' to 15', Spread 12' to 15' (zones 7 to 9)

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When you order trees from The Arbor Day Foundation, your order is guaranteed to arrive in a good, healthy condition or we'll replace them at no charge. Your trees will be shipped at a suitable time for planting.

Each tree is guaranteed to grow, or we'll replace it at one half the original price, plus shipping and handling.

The benefits of bare-root trees

Our trees are delivered with natural bare roots which have been dipped in hydrating gel prior to shipment to keep the roots moist and healthy. As their abundant, fibrous roots aren't confined by a container, bare-root trees get off to a more vigorous start compared to containerized roots which typically need more time to adjust to transplanting. Bare-root trees typically surpass the size of larger containerized trees in only a few years.