What is the quickest growing flowering tree?
A Fast Grower: Crape Myrtle Crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) comes in numerous cultivars, featuring flowers in lavender, pink, purple, red or white. The ones that bloom in mid to late summer are especially valuable for adding color to the landscape’s dog days, but there are also some that flower in early summer. For a long-blooming tree, it’s hard to top crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia). Most Southerners know that crape myrtle blooms literally all summer long, says arborist Doug Still.