Weigela
Weigela
Nothing much goes wrong with it, and the color runs deepest where the sun falls full on it.
Light Full sun brings the best flowers and the strongest foliage color.
Water Water while young; tolerant of neglect once established.
Height 2 m
Spread 6 ft 7 in
Spacing 200 cm
Root depth 12–24 in
- Type
- Shrub · Perennial
- Botanical family
- Mixed / other
- Foliage color
- Green
- Flower color
- Pink
- Sunlight
- Full sun brings the best flowers and the strongest foliage color.
- Watering
- Water while young; tolerant of neglect once established.
- Feeding
- A compost mulch after pruning; more than that is rarely wanted.
- Frost tolerant
- Yes
- Flowering
- May
- Pruning
- Prune when the flowers fade, taking out the oldest stems each year.
- Mar–May Bud Break
- May–Aug Flowering
- Aug–Oct Growing
- Oct–Dec Leaf Fall
- Jan–Mar Leaf Fall
- Plant spacing
- 6 ft 7 in
- In-row spacing
- 6 ft 7 in
- Between rows
- 8 ft 2 in
- Square-foot density
- Not suited to SFG
- Root system
- Woody and fibrous
- Working depth
- 12–24 in
- Can reach
- 3 ft down where the soil allows
- Spread
- 10–13 ft across, about 1.5–2× the width of the plant
- Shallowest pot
- 20 in of soil
A shallow woody framework with the fine feeding roots in the leaf litter above it. Those feeders are mostly under the outer half of the canopy rather than against the stem, which is where water and feed should go.
The habit is Weigela’s own; the figures are what that habit usually comes to at this size, not a measurement of this species. Roots follow the soil either way: a compacted pan, a high water table or heavy clay stops them well short of any of it, and deep open ground lets them go further.
- Generally trouble-free No notable pest or disease problems when grown in the right conditions — one of the easy ones.
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