This arrangement by Pistil & Stamen features camellias, magnolia foliage, loropetalum, flowering red maple branches and fern frond in a gold urn. (Photo by Chris Granger, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune ...

Loropetalum are so easy to grow, you can practically plant them and forget them. But you won't, because these shrubs with white, pink, creamy white, or reddish-purple blooms, also called Chinese ...

Loropetalum, sometimes known as Chinese fringe flower, is a superb, spring flowering, lightly scented evergreen shrub for milder climates. Reliable, adaptable and impressively drought tolerant, ...

Q: May we prune our two huge loropetalum bushes severely? They are enormous and I'm ready to have them be short and low to ground. Shelley Medders, Calhoun A: Different loropetalum varieties vary ...

Kathy Huber has worked for the Houston Chronicle since May 1981. She was Features Copy Desk chief before becoming the first full-time garden editor for the paper in 1988. She writes a weekly garden ...

A. The fringy, hot-pink blooms and burgundy foliage of this showy loropetalum have earned it a place in many Houston gardens. The bonus: It's pest-free and drought-tolerant. Typically, loropetalum ...