Best placement is on a slope where the shrub arches up over you a bit, giving easy viewing of the flowers. Also works well in lightly shaded foundation plantings. Winter Honeysuckle A heavenly fragrance drifting through the air on a late winter day alerts you that bloom time has begun on this large and adaptable shrub. Winter Honeysuckle is useful as a hedge or screen or as a handsome backdrop in the shrub border. A must for every butterfly garden, as the first butterflies to arrive in early spring make a beeline for the lingering small, creamy white blossoms.
Foliage remains through the fall and into early winter here in the South.
A wonderful evergreen shrub for sun to deep shade, eventually reaching 10' in height and spread. It is loaded with witch hazel-like fragrant blooms in early spring. Prefers acid, moist organic soils and has a pleasing natural form that needs little pruning. Loropetalum chinense var. Zhuzhou Fuchsia' Loropetalum chinense var.