I sure need your input. I've looked through various books and haven't come up with a 4W x 4H shrub (even 4W x 5H) for a new perennial bed other than dwarf crapes. I'm in a hot, humid, and very sunny Zone 7 of VA. The bed gets full sun from the west and south. The new shrubs would be planted next to peonies, red barberries and red/yellow daylilies.

I was going to buy the Razzle Dazzle crapes, but feel uneasy buying them as gardeners posting on Garden Web said their plants have never bloomed. AARGH.