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Plum Loropetalum – Exotic Elegance for Your Landscape
About the Bloom
Experience the unique beauty of the Plum Loropetalum’s foliage, a stunning addition to any garden. This plant features deep purple leaves that add a pop of color to your landscape year-round. While it doesn’t produce traditional blooms, the vibrant foliage makes a statement on its own, creating a lush and luxurious backdrop for your garden.
What to Know About the Plant
The Plum Loropetalum is an evergreen shrub with dark purple leaves that provide a striking contrast to its surroundings. This plant typically grows to a height of 6-10 feet, making it an ideal choice for hedges, borders, or standalone specimens. Its compact, rounded shape and dense foliage create a sense of privacy and tranquility in any outdoor space.
Enhancing your Fruitscape
Integrate the exotic elegance of the Plum Loropetalum into your fruitscape to elevate the beauty of your garden. Pair this ornamental shrub with fruit trees like Citrus, Peach, and Fig for a harmonious blend of color and texture. Mix in berry plants such as Blueberries and Blackberries to add a touch of sweetness to your landscape. Tropical plants like Banana and Pineapple can complement the Plum Loropetalum’s bold foliage, while herbs like Mint and Basil offer a fragrant and flavorful addition to your outdoor oasis. By combining these elements, you can create a vibrant and diverse garden that delights the senses and nourishes the soul.
With Just Fruits and Exotics, you can enjoy the convenience of receiving your Plum Loropetalum shipped 100% in pot, ensuring a seamless transition from online purchase to in-person arrival. Our superior packaging and easy shipping make the process hassle-free, while our nationally renowned, family-owned and operated online nursery brings a trusted, local-friendly vibe to your shopping experience. Transform your landscape with the Plum Loropetalum and discover the beauty of blending edibles and ornamentals in your garden today.
Landscaping with Shrubs and Hedges
Our Shrubs and Hedges will provide the perfect foundation for your garden beds. Use them in the background of a vegetable garden or perennial bed. You can also plant them around a fruit trees to highlight the trees beautiful shape. Plant hedges to provide an informal border along your yard. Planting shrubs is a great way to distinguish your yard and invite the admiring eye to gaze.
Recommended Fertilizers for Planting and Maintenance
- Starter Fertilizer:  Plant with Espoma Organic Bio-tone® Starter Plus. This will increase root mass and help avoid transplant loss in difficult planting conditions.
- Fertilizer to Maintain: Our Shrubs and Hedges do well with Espoma Organic Palm-tone Fertilizer
Growing Guide
Currently, we only have growing guides for our edible plants.  We are working on them for our ornamental & landscaping plants, and will add them in the near future. Contact us if you have questions on how to plant and nurture your Shrubs and Hedges, and we will be glad to have one of our gardeners assist you.
Ornamental & Landscaping Plants at Just Fruits & Exotics
Although Just Fruits and Exotics has been providing ornamental and landscaping plants to customers at our nursery since we added “Exotics” to our name in the 1990’s, we never had them available to our customers online.
However, September of 2018, with the launch of our updated Just Fruits and Exotics website, we added many of our ornamental and landscaping plants to our online store for our customers nationwide.  We encourage you to “Fruitscape†your yards, mixing edibles and ornamentals to make your own edible garden.
Shipping Restrictions
Unfortunately, We Cannot Process Orders to California, Hawaii, Alaska, or Internationally: Please note that due to specific agricultural regulations, we’re unable to ship any plants to the states of California, Hawaii, and Alaska, or outside the United States. Additionally, citrus trees can only be shipped within the state of Florida.
Shipping Information
Before Your Plants Arrive: You can find many guides on unpacking, planting, & care, on our growing guides page.
The Journey From Our Nursery to Your Door: We NEVER ship our plants bare root. Your plant will travel in the very container in which it was nurtured. We thoroughly prune and water them before packing, and make sure they’re well wrapped to retain moisture during transit. It’s as though you’ve personally collected them from our nursery!
Choose Your Ship Date: We understand you’ll want to be available when your plant arrives. Our checkout process features a handy calendar that allows you to choose the Monday on which you want your plant to ship. Depending on your location, you’ll likely receive your plant by Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday of that week. Once shipped, UPS will generate a tracking number and send it to the email you provided. You can then follow your plant’s journey and ensure someone is available to unpack it on arrival day.
Click Here To View Our Shipping Page For More Information & Packing/Unpacking Plants Videos