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, ...

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 ...

A: Sure – thanks for coming; I'm glad you liked it. I tried something different with this class and showed examples from my home garden. Except for training fruit trees for fruit production, I am ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q Not to beat a dead horse on what to do about this abundant shrub still looking so awful around town, but at this point what little flowering they can muster has occurred on mine and is being ...

Most gardeners I've come in contact with have a list of favorite plants. At the top of my list is firebush, which I've shared with you in a previous article. Since fall is an excellent time to plant ...