Re: OT - Shrub:Loropetalum
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- Subject: Re: OT - Shrub:Loropetalum
- From: w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 07:24:00 -0600
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From: wmoores@watervalley.net
> From: rdhager@dmv.com
>
> > It is planted on the north side of the house
> > and may be hardier than expected.
> >
>
The first two winters of its existence here, we experienced
temperatures as low as 12o, and I am sure the roots of my blush
loropetalum really hadn't become well-established, and it survived.
Do you have any information as to how 'razzleberri' came
about? I surfed more internet sites last night and also found
loropetalum called the 'fringe bush.' Another article said
loropetalum could challenge azaleas as the favorite shrub of
springtime!
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA
> Walter,
> Dirr lists Loropetalum as Zone 8 to 9, but I know a few people who are
> trying it around Washington, DC and a few sites north of there. The
> late Dr. J. C. Raulston of NC State was a proponent of the species and
> grew it in Raleigh. The Arnold is also working with it. I suspect that
> it can be grown in Zone 7 and possibly Zone 6, if properly sited. I
> agree that it is stunning in the south, but I have not been impressed
> with the few specimens I've seen closer to the Mason-Dixon, no matter
> how many times I've been told that it is a "must have".
>
> R. Dennis Hager
> on Delmarva
>
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