Heavy Bloomer Attracts HummingbirdsWeigela Ghost, Weigela florida ‘Carlton’, features deer resistant foliage that is almost supernatural!The remarkable lemon-yellow foliage magically turns to a ghostly, iridescent butter yellow as the summer progresses. The striking blood-red flowers appear in spring and are preceded by equally impressive buds that are almost black-red in color.‘Ghost’ sporadically reblooms during the summer into fall. A light pruning will encourage repeat flowering.Weigela Ghost™ is easy to grow and makes an excellent specimen plant in the landscape. The only thing this freaky plant will scare is the deer!It grows best in full sun to partial sun and prefers well-drained soil. Easy to grow and very heavy-blooming, this shrub deserves a prominent position in your landscape.Hummingbirds are attracted to the intense color and sweet nectar.* Heavy bloomer* Intense color* Excellent specimen* Deer Resistant Pruning Spring Flowering Shrubs in Southern Regions.
Category: Weigela Shrubs
Rumba Weigela
Summer-Long Color & Exquisite BloomsRumba Weigela, Weigela florida ‘Rumba’, is a deciduous shrub with long-blooming flowers and foliage color. Rumba would be impressive planted en masse in a naturalized area of your home or on a small slope. As a semi-dwarf, it’s also small enough to work well in a container on your patio, or used in your perennial bed for continuous color.Your Rumba Weigela is a delightfully colorful shrub. Even its foliage offers something to the color spectrum. Each 4-inch long, yellow-hued green leaf features a purple-tinted edge and provides a dense backdrop for the colorful flowers. The bloom begins in June, and what a bloom it is! Your Rumba will be blanketed with trumpet-shaped, hot pink/red blossoms all summer long. The brilliant flowers, accented with yellow throats, diminish in number as the season progresses. However, the flowers will still maintain a strong presence in your yard into September. Rumba Weigela will grow to 3 feet tall with a 4-foot spread. It has a dense, rounded nature and no significant disease or insect issues. Rumba prefers full sun for best flowering, but can tolerate some light shade. It’s adaptive to a variety of soil types and even does well in urban settings. Under ideal conditions, Rumba will live up to 30 years. For summer-long interest, even when not in bloom, Rumba Weigela is a terrific choice. Fit one or two of these semi-dwarf shrubs into your landscape today, and enjoy its seasonal impact.* Impressive, long-blooming flowers * Colorful foliage * Wildlife interest * Adaptive to various soils * Tolerates urban conditions* Attracts Butterflies & Hummingbirds .
My Monet® Weigela
Months of Color in a Compact Shrub – Makes a Great Low HedgeMy Monet Weigela, Weigela florida ‘Verweig’, is a deciduous shrub prized for its colorful flowers and foliage. It would be perfect for planting in front of your taller foundation shrubs, as a low hedge or ground cover for your sunny areas. My Monet is even adaptable to container planting so you can enjoy a couple on your patio or sun porch.My Monet is the first hardy dwarf Weigela variety ever introduced, and it has proven to be a winner! Who wouldn’t love the colors and variegation of a classic Monet in their landscape? My Monet Weigela will give you just that! In the spring your shrub will be peppered with blooms that are the color of raspberry sherbet. They are larger and more numerous than other varieties, and depending upon sunlight exposure, the leaf margins can vary from vanilla-cream (shade) to coral-pink (full sun). What a delicious mix of colors all in the same plant! Your butterflies, bees and hummingbirds will certainly come in for a taste.Your My Monet Weigela has a compact, rounded shape. Because of its tight habit and colorful foliage, you will find that this plant is very versatile. My Monet Weigela is also surprisingly drought tolerant, so forget about hauling water to it during periods of low rain. It will do just fine.My Monet Weigela is a wonderful addition to your yard for season-long color…and you won’t have to worry about replanting next spring. This little shrub comes back year after year! * Green Leaves Edged in White* Edges Turn Pink in Sun* Pink Funnel Shaped Flowers* Attracts Butterflies & Hummingbirds* Deer Resistant .
Sonic Bloom® Pink Weigela
An Explosion of Hot Pink BrillianceLike a “sonic” BOOM, this fabulous weigela variety bursts upon the scene with an explosion of color! Each tiny blossom appears clothed in stunning, hot pink with a deep pink throat. The multitude of blooms appear in May, clustered along the branches in such profusion of flowers that your shrub will at times appear to be nothing more than a mound of colorful blooms.As the flowers recede and re-bloom, you’ll begin to notice the dramatic, dark green foliage that fills out the few spaces between the blossoms…which continue to re-bloom right up until the first frost. Sonic Bloom doesn’t need deadheading, and provides its remarkable show from spring through fall with nothing needed from you. Your Sonic Bloom Pink Weigela will grow up to 5 feet in height with an equal spread. It’s a very dense shrub with a mounded nature. Sonic Bloom is adaptable to a variety of soils, urban tolerant and long-lived. Hummingbirds, butterflies and bees will flock to your Sonic Bloom, but deer will pass it by. Overall, it’s a very hardy shrub that works well in containers, as an ornamental hedge along an outbuilding, or even just planted singly for a strong accent in your yard. A blast of hot pink flowers in spring, that continues to erupt in blooms repeatedly into fall, makes Sonic Bloom Pink Weigela a prime pick for your yard this year! * Spring-fall flowers* Re-bloomer* Adaptable to a variety of soils* Works well in containers.
Sonic Bloom® Pearl Weigela
Reblooms Like No Other!Weigela is a lovely old fashioned plant that you’ve seen in woodland plantings and your grandmothers garden. But Sonic Bloom Pearl Weigela (Sonic Bloom® Pearl Weigela florida ‘Bokrasopea’ USPP 24,585) isn’t your grandma’s weigela!This new Proven Winners Sonic Bloom series is a super exciting breakthrough in Weigela breeding. The Sonic Bloom series has the strongest reblooming that we’ve ever seen in Weigela.In May tons of flowers burst all over the plant, up and down the length of the branches. After that initial burst, this powerhouse keeps on reblooming in massive waves all the way until a killing frost. You won’t need to prune this self-sufficient beauty to get rebloom like you do on many old garden plants. Sonic Bloom Pearl just keeps on giving without any attention needed…except for the attention it commands because of its beauty!Sonic Bloom Pearl flowers open a pure white with a yellow throat. They then change to a soft pink. This gives you multiple colored flowers all over the same plant. The bright green foliage really makes the flowers shine, too.Trade up to Sonic Bloom Pearl Weigela and enjoy the prolific flowers through three seasons.* Heavy rebloom* Showy flowers* Easy-care.
Fine Wine® Weigela
Outstanding Burgundy FoliageBurgundy foliage is the highlight of this dramatically colorful shrub. The deep coloring of the leaves, like the “fine” burgundy “wine” of its name, maintains its dramatic flair throughout summer and into fall. Unlike larger, lankier varieties, Florida Fine Wine Weigela will also hold its upright shape, resisting the urge to part in the middle or droop down.An additional decorative feature to the striking foliage appears in spring when hot pink flowers dangle in clusters amid the leaves, and sporadically re-appear throughout the summer months. This re-bloom occurs on its own, but will be far more impressive with a light pruning (after the first bloom). Florida Fine Wine’s blossoms are trumpet-shaped and will create a phenomenal vision in your yard when hummingbirds come to sample their sweet treat. Your Florida Fine Wine Weigela is a deciduous, ornamental shrub that will grow up to 4 feet in height with a spread of 3 feet. It has a compact, multi-stemmed nature and mounded form. Florida Fine Wine is adaptable to a variety of soils and deer resistant.It’s small enough to be perfect as a low-growing, ornamental for the front of your perennial bed or as a border planting. Since it grows right down to the ground, there’s no need for facer plants, and it’s also quite comely in containers with complementing plantings. Hardy and long-lived, Florida Fine Wine Weigela can be expected to grace your yard for up to 30 years (under ideal conditions). Weigela are remarkably popular shrubs and much sought after for the home landscape. Florida Fine Wine Weigela provides all the usual decorative features but in a much smaller package, so you can certainly fit one into your landscape this year. * Spring-fall flowers* Re-bloomer* Adaptable to a variety of soils* Works well in containers.
Sonic Bloom® Red Weigela
Radiant Red Spring to FallOne of the best re-blooming weigela varieties you’ll find, Sonic Bloom bursts into radiant red bloom in May and doesn’t stop until the first frost. Forming along the upright, gently arching branches, the brilliant blossoms appear singly or in clusters, a dramatic show against the dark green foliage.Sonic Bloom doesn’t need deadheading, so it will provide you with its remarkable show from spring through fall with nothing needed from you in return. It’s quite simply one of the easiest shrubs you can own that will still provide you with long-lasting color. Your Sonic Bloom Red Weigela will grow up to 5 feet in height with an equal spread. It’s a dense shrub with a mounded nature and fountain-like branches. Sonic Bloom is adaptable to a variety of soils, urban tolerant and will even be long-lived under optimal conditions.Hummingbirds, butterflies and bees will flock to your Sonic Bloom, but deer will pass it by, so you don’t have to worry about avoiding areas of high wildlife traffic. Sonic Bloom does well in containers, as an ornamental hedge, or even used as a foundation planting. With its trumpet-shaped, red blossoms, ease of care and long-bloom period it’s easy to see why Sonic Bloom Red Weigela is the outstanding, popular shrub that is it. It’s sure to make an impression in your yard this year! * Spring-fall flowers* Re-bloomer* Adaptable to a variety of soils* Works well in containers.
Wine & Roses® Weigela
Hot Pink Flowers and Burgundy FoliageWine & Roses Weigela, Weigela florida ‘Alexandra’, is an ornamental, deciduous shrub sought after for its spectacular spring flowers and colorful foliage. Plant several en masse for a dramatic display in a side yard, or even just one as a decorative accent to your front yard.You’re sure to adore the impressive spring blooms. The flowers appear singly or in clusters, and each is over an inch long—a tasty treat for hummingbirds and butterflies in your yard. The rich, dark burgundy foliage of your Wine & Roses Weigela provides a striking contrast to the hot-pink, funnel-shaped flowers that appear in the spring. Even when spring has passed, you may still see the occasional blossom throughout the summer. Your Wine & Roses Weigela will grow to 5 feet in height with an equal spread. It’s a fast-grower, so you’ll see results in no time. The Wine & Roses Weigela doesn’t have any significant disease or pest problems, so you can be assured of a relatively easy-to-care-for plant. Between the brilliant flowers and picturesque foliage, your Wine & Roses Weigela will easily keep your landscape awash in color for three seasons.Wine & Roses Weigela was awarded the Gold Medal Plant Award by the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society in 2000. Once you have one in your yard, you’ll certainly agree that it’s a winner! *Hot Pink Flowers*Dark Burgundy Foliage*Attracts Butterflies and Hummingbirds*Deer Resistant .
Spilled Wine® Weigela
Easy to Grow with Exotic AppealSpilled Wine Weigela, Weigela florida ‘Bokraspiwi’, has wavy leaves that have a rich, dark purple-red color that intensifies to near black in late summer. It does not fade to green like some older selections! This handsome deep purple foliage adds a delightful extra touch to this plant!There is a spring flush of hot pink magenta flowers, with additional flowering through summer and fall.The tubular flowers are adored by swarms of hummingbirds that enjoy the nectar of these bright, colorful flowers.This smart little shrub looks like an exotic special, but actually it’s easy to grow, very dependable, and super long-blooming. The Spilled Wine Weigela matures to 18″-24″ with a spread of 3′-4′.Prune the Spilled Wine Weigela to shape after flowering, and fertilize in early spring by applying a slow release fertilizer.Spilled Wine Weigela has a spreading habit and is a smaller plant–wider than it is tall. This plant is beautiful as a specimen, in the mixed border, or foundation plantings. It loves full sun and is deer resistant.* Dark Purple, Nearly Black Foliage* Hot Magenta Flowers* Spreading Habit* Deer Resistant .
Midnight Wine® Weigela
The Midnight Wine Weigela, Weigela florida ‘Elvera’, a Proven Winners selection, produces intense dark metallic purple-black foliage for season long interest and color.Reddish pink funnel-shaped blooms appear in the spring. This marvelous low mounding, dwarf plant is perfect for use in the front of a border or for edging.It is stunning as an accent plant or for a dramatic mass planting; also effective as a low hedge and in small places.Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soils in full sun, Midnight Wine needs full sun for best flowering and foliage color, but will tolerate very light shade. Prune to shape immediately after flowering. This weigela is loved for its consistently dark leaves, mounding habit, and low maintenance. For a brilliant contrast, try pairing it with yellow foliage companions!* Stunning foliage* Low maintenance* Dwarf variety* Attracts Butterflies* Attracts Hummingbirds* Deer Resistant .