Jazz Hands Variegated® Loropetalum

Mature Size: 4–6 ft tall and wide
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Deep burgundy-purple with cream-to-pink margins; evergreen
Bloom Time: Spring; reblooms into summer
Flower Color: Vivid fuchsia-pink
Growing Zone: 7–9

$119.95

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Cream-edged purple foliage all year, lit up by ribbony hot-pink blooms from spring into summer — the most colorful evergreen shrub you can plant.

Jazz Hands Variegated® Loropetalum (Loropetalum chinense 'Irodori') is an evergreen Chinese fringe flower grown for one of the most striking leaf displays in the genus. Each oval leaf emerges deep burgundy-purple and matures with irregular cream-to-pink margins, so the whole shrub reads as a shifting tapestry of plum, pink, and ivory. In spring and again into summer it scatters clusters of spidery, strap-petaled blooms in vivid fuchsia-pink that hover against the dark foliage. It settles into a rounded, well-branched mound of 4 to 6 feet tall and wide, holding its color through the seasons rather than fading after a single show.

What I love about it

Jazz Hands Variegated is the shrub that makes every other plant in the border look better. The plum-and-cream foliage is genuinely unusual — rich and complex in a way that plain purple loropetalums can't match — and it holds that color year-round as an evergreen. The hot-pink fringe flowers in spring are the exclamation point on an already spectacular plant. Use it as a colorful foundation shrub, a low informal hedge, a bold anchor in a mixed border, or a standout focal point where its plum-and-cream foliage can play against greens and golds. Pollinator-friendly and low-maintenance once established.