When you close your eyes and think of a Southern summer garden, the first image may be an ancient live oak with low, sweeping branches, but the second image is puffs of sunset sky-colored crepe myrtle ...

Whether you're using your serviceberry as a specimen plant, a border or hedge component, or the centerpiece of a garden that attracts birds, you can grow it as a small tree or multi-trunked shrub.

The Cascalote tree is mostly evergreen, but it may go deciduous in early spring for a short period of time. It is a little more difficult to keep pruned and will become a multi-trunk tree.