Pieris japonica ( Valley Valentine Pieris )
A superb shade - loving , flowering evergreen plant bush . Foliage is dark , glossy green , bronze to red when vernal . Urn - shaped flowers are borne in pendent , terminal panicles , to 6 inches long . Bloomtime is from late wintertime to other spring . Related to rhododendron and azaleas , it requires the same shady , moist , acidulent , well - drain land ....