Crepe myrtles always remind me of my great aunt. She had some beautiful fuschia ones in her yard. I wonder if they'd really adapt to San Diego and my clay soil. According to that site, they're okay for the growing zone, but I've never been able to get anything to grow in my yard. It really is all rocks and clay. There's some kind of oak something, I think, in the front yard (it produces these hard orange nutty things that have sharp edges when they open, about the size of a marble - it's a pain to rake up) and what I think is an olive tree. And one scrabbly orange tree that produces really bitter fruit. Go figure. Nothing else lives except the weeds. Sandspurs and foxtails.

I just don't know the west coast plants very well.

Roxy