Purple Daydream Loropetalum
Loropetalum chinense ‘PPI’ PP25471
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-10b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Shrub
Height at Maturity: 2-3′
Width at Maturity: 3-4′
Spacing: 3-3.5′ for solid hedges or mass plantings; 8’+ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Mounding, Bushy, Dense
Growth Rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Nearly Red
Flower Size: 1-1.5″
Flowering Period: Late Winer/ Early Spring
Flower Type: Fringe
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Dark Maroon
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered Sun, Morning Shade with Evening Sun
Water Needs: Average, Low when established
Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sandy (amended), Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Somewhat Dry
Soil pH: 4.0 – 6.5 (Acid to Slightly Acidic)
Maintenance / Care: Very Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect
Description
Boasting handsome dark maroon purple foliage year round, Purple Daydream is a dwarf Loropetalum that produces LOADS of vibrant, almost-red flowers on a dense spreading mound to only 2 to 3 feet in height with a spread of 3 to 4 feet. The flowers are heavy in late winter into spring and repeat lighter in fall. As with all other Loropetalums the deer won’t touch it!
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing naturally to about 2 to 3 feet tall and 3 to 4 wide, or kept smaller with occasional pruning, the Purple Daydream Loropetalum is ideal for use as an accent, in groupings or mass plantings, or in straight or staggered rows as a hedge in home foundation plantings and landscape borders. Its smaller size makes it a good fit for pots, planters and other containers. The year round deep purple foliage contrasts nicely with plants that have yellow, light green, grey or other light colored foliage or flowers. A fine addition to purple theme gardens, Asian theme gardens, and the Xeriscape (low water needs).
Suggested Spacing: 3 to 4 feet apart for solid hedge; 8 feet or more apart for space between plants
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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Loropetalum variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring. Requires a well-lit space for overwintering indoors.
Growing Preferences
Purple Daydream Loropetalum is very easy to grow in a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. Foliage is more dense in full sun. As with so many other ornamental plants, constantly soggy or wet soil can be problematic. Established plants are exceptionally drought tolerant. When established, plants are exceptionally drought tolerant requiring little if any supplemental irrigation. Requires no pruning, however responds very well to almost any amount of it.
Helpful Articles
Click on the link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Loropetalum shrubs.
How To Plant A Loropetalum Shrub
How To Fertilize & Water A Loropetalum Shrub
How To Prune & Trim A Loropetalum Shrub Or Tree
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