@galent I got into bonsais when I was young and used to “rescue” seedling trees from being run over by a lawnmower by digging them up and turning them into bonsais. I had a mini forest going. Years later, I went off to college and gave most of them away and left a couple to my mom.
One person planted two crepe myrtles in the front of their house and they got huge. They send me pics every other year. My mom planted one and I’ve used the leaves in my pics for this site.