Weigela
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An easy, old-fashioned shrub whose arching branches are covered in rosy tubular flowers for a couple of weeks in late spring, with a lighter repeat in summer, and hummingbirds visit. It suits borders, foundations and informal hedges, and takes clay and city air. It blooms on old wood, so prune right after flowering.
- Mature size
- 8 × 10 ft
- 2.4 × 3 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part sun
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- May–Jun
Weigela at its mature size
A mature Weigela grows 6 to 10 feet tall and 9 to 12 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension.
Through the year
What Weigela looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Dormant · Nov–Mar
Bare arching gray-brown stems.
In leaf · Apr, Jul–Oct
Dense dark wine-purple leaves, no flowers.
In flower · May–Jun
Pink trumpet flowers along the arching stems.
Photos
Growing Weigela
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Hedge, foundation planting, specimen, and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Drops its leaves in winter
- Native to
- Northern China and Korea
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Weigela, that’s about 10 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Weigela in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other weigelas
My Monet Weigela
Wine & Roses Weigela
WeigelaAll drawn to the same scale.