Weigela — changing beauty in Your garden

Modern kaleidoscope of flowering shrubs weigela will never get lost thanks to the abundant blooms, can be repeated again. Like a real fashionista, weigela changes during flowering your outfit by changing the color of flowers. White, cream, pink, red flower color changed from disclosure of the buds before full decay, for which weigela called "Bush-chameleon".



Lately are very popular garden forms weigela blooming (Weigela florida) and hybrid garden forms; and it is dedicated to this material.
 

Blooming weigela (Weigela florida) is a shrub native to the Primorye, Japan, Northern China, up to 3 m. Leaves dark green, elliptic to oblong-ovate. The flowers are large, about 3 cm in diameter, tubular, dark pink edges, pale pink inside, in bundles of 3-4; bloom in may-June.

Decorative shapes:

Blooming weigela ‘Nana Variegata’



This densely branched shrub up to 1.0 m, growing to 2 m. Leaves grey-green with creamy-white edging. Pink flowers; bloom in June-July. Slow growing. Grows well in sun and partial shade areas of the garden.
 

Weigela blooming ‘Brigela’

This upright shrub to 2.5 m. Leaves are green with a wide yellow border. The flowers are dark pink; bloom in June-July. Fast growing. Requires a Sunny location, where the yellow edges of the leaves becomes even brighter.
 

Blooming weigela ‘Foliis Purpureis’

Shrub up to 1 m and width up to 1.5 m Leaves are bronze-green.
 

Weigela blooming 'Purpurea'

The flowers are purple.
 

Weigela flowering 'Rubra'

The flowers are red.
 

Blooming weigela ‘Variegata’

Shrub height and width of 2-2,5 m. the Leaves belookaymlennye, gray-green. This form of garden can grow well and bloom in partial shade areas of the garden; it requires fertile, moist soil. Is luxury spring ranelate its decoration. Suitable for single and group plantings. Well propagated by cuttings.
 

Weigela blooming 'Venusta'

The flowers are white, then turning pink.
 

Hybrid garden forms magelbagel 'Abel Carriere'



Common in the culture of shrub height and width of 2 m. the Leaves are oval, dark green. Rose-red flowers with yellow-spotted throat; bloom in late spring — early summer.
 

Weigela 'Briant Rubidor'

This garden form can appear in the sale under the name of W. Olympiade. Also common in the culture of shrub height and width to 2 m. the Leaves are oval, up to 8 cm long, at first yellowish-green, then bright yellow, sometimes with yellow border. Flowers ruby-red, 3 cm long; bloom in late spring – early summer. The most decorative half-shaded places in the garden.
 

Weigela 'Bristol Ruby'

 
Resilient, powerful upright shrub height of 2.5 m, width 2 m. the Leaves are oval, dark green. The flowers are bell-shaped, Carmine-red.
 

Weigela 'Bristol Snowflake'

This garden form, the sale can be found under the name of W. Snowflake. Fairly common in the culture of the shrub, height 1.2 m and width 1.5 m. the Leaves are oval, dark green. The flowers are pure white.
 

Weigela 'Candida'

Tall and wide shrub with a height and a width of 2.5 m. the Leaves are bright green. The flowers are white.
 

Weigela 'Carnaval'

Strong and upright shrub, with a height of 2.5 m, width 2 m. the Leaves are dark green, up to 10 cm long Flowers up to 5 cm, pale pink, white and dark pink.
 

Weigela 'Eva Rathke'

 
Shrub height and width up to 1.5 m. Leaves bright green. The flowers are tubular, red-Carmine.
 

Weigela 'Aurea Looymasii'

Slow growing shrub with curved arc shoots, height and width of 1.5 m. the Leaves are Golden yellow, up to 8 cm Flowers are dark purple or pale pink.
 

Weigela 'Minuet'

Compact shrub, a height of 0,75 m, a width of 1.2 m. the Leaves are oval, bronze-green, up to 8 cm Flowers are bell-shaped, slightly fragrant, dark pink.
 

Weigela 'Rosea'

Spreading shrub, up to 1.5 m. Flowers large, pink, pink and white. Well winters in Central Russia in the shelter of spruce branches.
 

Features выращивания

In the southern regions weigela is hardy in Central and Northern winters with shelter: in the winter the bushes bind and bends to the ground. In winters with little snow covered spruce branches. Needs protection from the North winds. Damaged by frost in the spring and remove the stems. After flowering cut the faded shoots to the developed buds or young lower shoots (every 2-3 years). It is light-requiring, not demanding growing conditions, but prefer moist, fertile, well drained soil. Quite resistant to diseases and pests, sometimes can be damaged by aphids.
 
Planting 3-year seedlings carried out in the spring; planting depth of 50-60 cm Feeding: early spring – complex fertilizer in early June (during the formation of flower buds) – phosphorous and potash. Moderate watering, especially in dry spring and dry hot summer, with a subsequent loosening and mulching sawdust layer up to 10 cm
 



Weigela is good in soliternyh and group plantings on the lawn, mixed borders, combined with flower perennials. It is used in free-growing, flowering hedges, including combined combined with lilac, compendium, mock orange and other ornamental shrubs. The garden form ‘Nana Variegata’ will fit harmoniously into the structure of the rocky garden.

The name of the genus weigela family Jimolosti given in honor of a German Professor, botanist C. Weigela. Loved vagely famous French breeder Lemoine. The genus includes 15 (12) species distributed mainly in East Asia. published

 

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