Weigela florida is valued for its use as a specimen or mixed border plant. Plant Old Fashioned Weigela around windows so its abundant pink flowers can be admired each spring.
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Form
-deciduous, spreading, dense, rounded shrub reaching 6-9' tall x 9-12' wide, dense, arching, eventually to the ground
-moderate to fast growth rate; low maintenance |
Foliage
-leaves simple, opposite, elliptic, 2-4" long x 1" wide, acuminate (pointed tip), rounded at base, serrate, short petiole
-leaf color is medium to dark green in summer, turning brownish in autumn |
Flowers
-flowers funnel-shaped, perfect, about 1" long, borne singly or several in axillary clusters
-in spring and sporadically during the summer
-flowers come in various shades of rose and pink, depending on cultivar; very abundant and showy |
Fruit
-2-valved, glabrous capsule to 1" long
-no ornamental significance |
Twig
-gray-brown, scurfy, with large circular
lenticels
-2 rows of fine hairs between the nodes |
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Trunk
-not applicable |
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Culture
-Old Fashioned Weigela grows best in a sunny location and moist soil; shaded plants are straggly
-dislikes crowding
-transplants well
-some annual dieback and winter injury make annual
pruning necessary
-becomes rangy unless pruned, no serious pests or diseases |
Hardiness
-zones 4 to 8
Origin
-native to Japan
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U S A G E |
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Assets
-profusion of colorful flowers
-relatively low maintenance
-adaptable and urban tolerant
Liabilities
-becomes scraggly, unkempt, and larger than intended unless properly pruned and managed |
Function
-accent, boder, massing, hedge
Texture
-coarse in leaf and when bare
-medium density |
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Varieties
and Cultivars
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Alternates
-other spring-flowering shrubs (Viburnum, Rhododendron, Deutzia gracilis, etc.) |