Texas Gardening: need help, shade in a.m., blazing sun in p.m., 1 by crowellli

crowellli wrote:
The Little Gem Magnolia is in this photo to the right of the fountain. It's only been in the ground a few weeks, so it looks a little scrappy right now due to dropping leaves at planting time. I've done this with another Little Gem in the past and it worked out really well.

As to the loropetalum, it won't get much tallker than it is now. I've started pruning it a bit so that it will be more dense. There are more of them behind the white plumbago, but the plumbago has sort of overpowered them. They'll eventually make a fairly dense hedge at the back of the bed with the lighter colored plumbago and pentas showing up really well against the dark plum colored leaves of the loropetalum (at least that's my plan, we'll have to see if the plants cooperate or have something else in mind).