Plant: Purple Pixie - Dwarf Weeping Loropetalum
Loropetalum · Loropetalum chinense 'Purple Pixie'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
The smallest of the fringe flowers, recorded by Clemson at only 1.5 to 3 feet tall, with dark purple foliage on rough, sandpapery leaves and bright 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. Its very low habit makes it useful as a ground cover, a bank planting, a border edge or a container plant, and it is generally pest free and deer resistant.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 3 ft tall and 8 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7b-9b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
The smallest of the fringe flowers, recorded by Clemson at only 1.5 to 3 feet tall, with dark purple foliage on rough, sandpapery leaves and bright 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. Its very low habit makes it useful as a ground cover, a bank planting, a border edge or a container plant, and it is generally pest free and deer resistant.
- Flowers
- Bright 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, dark purple.
- Pruning
- Prune after the spring bloom if needed. 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
