Purple Diamond Loropetalum
Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum ‘Shang-hi’ · a purple-leaf loropetalum
A semi-dwarf fringe flower with deep purple leaves that hold their colour through summer and pink, spidery flowers in late winter and spring, sometimes again in fall. It's a fine accent, border or foundation shrub, drought tolerant once settled, and deer tend to leave it alone. Give it acid, well-drained soil.
- Mature size
- 4.5 × 4.5 ft
- 1.4 × 1.4 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 7a–10b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Mar–Apr
Purple Diamond Loropetalum at its mature size
A mature Purple Diamond Loropetalum grows to about 4.5 ft tall and 4.5 ft wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: southernlivingplants.com.
Through the year
What Purple Diamond Loropetalum looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · May–Feb
Dense evergreen burgundy-purple foliage, no flowers.
In flower · Mar–Apr
Fringe-like pink flowers all over the purple leaves.
Growing Purple Diamond Loropetalum
- Grows well in
- The Southeast and California.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Hedge, small space, foundation planting, specimen, and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China, Japan, and Southeast Asia
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Purple Diamond Loropetalum, that’s about 4.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Purple Diamond Loropetalum in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other loropetalums
Purple Pixie Loropetalum
Purple Daydream LoropetalumPurple Diamond Loropetalum
Red Diamond LoropetalumAll drawn to the same scale.