Plant: Purple Diamond - Semi-Dwarf Loropetalum
Loropetalum · Loropetalum chinense 'Purple Diamond'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A Southern Living fringe flower with deep purple foliage held on rough, sandpapery leaves and pink four petalled flowers with wavy, strap like petals in spring. It needs acidic, well drained soil, grows in full sun to part shade and becomes drought tolerant once established. Generally pest free and deer resistant, it is used as a foundation shrub, an informal hedge, a mass planting or an accent. Note that recorded mature sizes for this cultivar vary widely, so allow more room than the semi dwarf label suggests.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 10 ft tall and 8 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7b-9b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A Southern Living fringe flower with deep purple foliage held on rough, sandpapery leaves and pink four petalled flowers with wavy, strap like petals in spring. It needs acidic, well drained soil, grows in full sun to part shade and becomes drought tolerant once established. Generally pest free and deer resistant, it is used as a foundation shrub, an informal hedge, a mass planting or an accent. Note that recorded mature sizes for this cultivar vary widely, so allow more room than the semi dwarf label suggests.
- Flowers
- Pink four petalled flowers with wavy, strap like petals open in clusters in spring.
- Foliage
- Simple alternate leaves 1 to 3 inches long, rough and sandpapery, deep purple.
- Pruning
- Prune after the spring bloom if needed. It can be sheared into shapes or trained as an espalier, and overgrown plants can be renovated by cutting stems back to 6 to 12 inches above the crown.
- Native range
- China to northeast Thailand, Japan and Taiwan
