Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Is loropetalum truly evergreen in zone 7a?, 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
I'm not enamored with the green leaf one - after it blooms you just have a plain green shrub. The dark purple leaf forms have some pizzazz after the blooms. We bought the dwarf Purple Diamond but if it is dwarf I'd hate to see the giants. It was over 7 feet tall after 3 years in the ground with an equal spread. Thank goodness for loppers.

Here are some of them on one side of the house next to Mahonia and a five foot fence. This was after cutting them back.