"Paul Paulsen" wrote in message
news:SBwLc.156006$Oq2.59956@attbi_s52...
On recent drives to Mountain Home, Arkansas and to the Great Smoky
Mountains
Nat'l Park I saw some beautiful plants which I had not seen before.
1) The first one seemed to be some type of locust tree with numerous
pink or light purple blossoms. Some were very large and others almost
looked
like a bush. These seemed common along the roadsides.
2) The second were even more pretty with large clumps of blossoms at
the
ends of each branch. Colors? I saw white, pink, red, deep red, and purple.
One of the locals said this was myrtle.
Please let me know what these were and what the typical growing zones are
for plants.
Thanks in advance.
Paul
Northern IL

Paul,

Not sure about your first entry but #2 would be a crape (crepe) myrtle.
What I know about them is that there are shrub varieties and tree varieties.
I am a (temporarily) transplanted Yankee living in Virginia so don't know
much about them but do agree with you that they are pretty.

Lynn