Wavy, deep purple leaves, hot pink flowers. Rose red blooms with glossy burgundy leaves. Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: VIDEO created by Andy Pulte for “Landscape Plant Identification, Taxonomy and Morphology” a plant identification course offered by the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee. Insects, Diseases, and Other Plant Problems: Minimal insect and disease damage.
Axillary tubular-campanulate flowers after leaves.Stems of new growth have 2 vertical rows of white 'hair'.Weigela is air pollution and clay soil tolerant and is lightly salt tolerant.Ĭultivars available include variegated leaf forms and many anthocyanin-hued (red, blue, or purple) flowers as well as a yellow-flowered cultivar.īloom: Spring and Summer Foliage: Spring, Summer, and Fall Many of the dwarf cultivars can be grown as container plants. In the United States and North America, this shrub is used in the landscape as a foundation plant, in a mass planting, or on a shrub border. Prune if necessary to help maintain the plant's size and shape. If not pruned, branches will form a fountain-like outline which is highly ornamental while covered with blooms, but over time it can take on a weedier appearance. Weigela typically grows from 6 to 10 feet tall and 9 to 12 feet wide however, cultivars tend to be smaller. When mature, older interior branches can be removed in late winter to improve the plant's vigor and blooms the following year. This plant blooms on old wood, therefore, pruning is best done just after flowering as flowers appear on last season's wood.
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Plant this shrub in the full sun to light shade or dappled sunlight, though the best flowering and foliage color will occur in full sun. For approximately two weeks, in each mid-to late spring, after the leaves emerge, showy, rosy-colored tubular flowers cover the shrub and have a repeat, though sparser, performance in mid to late summer. The epithet, florida, means "beautiful." This plant is a dense, rounded, deciduous shrub with somewhat coarse branches that tend to arch toward the ground as the shrub reaches maturity. Weigela is in the Caprifoliaceae (honeysuckle) family and is native to North China, Korea, and Japan. Also note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.Phonetic Spelling wy-GEE-la FLOR-id-ah Description Note that when grown in a container, it may not perform exactly as indicated on the tag - this is to be expected. It is even sizeable enough that it can be grown alone in a suitable container. It can be used either as 'filler' or as a 'thriller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, depending on the height and form of the other plants used in the container planting. Minuet Weigela makes a fine choice for the outdoor landscape, but it is also well-suited for use in outdoor pots and containers. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It may require supplemental watering during periods of drought or extended heat. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. Minuet Weigela will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet.
Minuet Weigela is recommended for the following landscape applications It has no significant negative characteristics. It is a good choice for attracting hummingbirds to your yard. This shrub will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. Minuet Weigela is a dense multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. The pointy leaves are highly ornamental but do not develop any appreciable fall color. It has attractive white deciduous foliage which emerges deep purple in spring. Minuet Weigela features showy clusters of ruby-red trumpet-shaped flowers with purple overtones and yellow throats along the branches in late spring. This elegant and hardy spring-flowering shrub is covered in reddish-pink trumpet-shaped flowers with yellow throats, which attract hummingbirds compact and dense, excellent for general garden use, great in groups needs full sun
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