Wine & Roses Weigela
Weigela florida ‘Alexandra’ · a purple-leaf weigela
Grown for its dark purple leaves and profuse reddish-pink tubular flowers in spring, with a lighter repeat in summer, a Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold Medal winner. It suits borders, foundations and hedges, and takes clay. Give it full sun for the best colour, and prune right after flowering.
- Mature size
- 4.5 × 5 ft
- 1.4 × 1.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Apr–Jun
Wine & Roses Weigela at its mature size
A mature Wine & Roses Weigela grows 4 to 5 feet tall and 4 to 6 feet wide.
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: Missouri Botanical Garden.
Through the year
What Wine & Roses 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 burgundy-purple leaves, a few scattered flowers at most.
In flower · May–Jun
Rosy-pink trumpet flowers over the dark burgundy leaves.
Growing Wine & Roses 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, small space, 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 Wine & Roses Weigela, that’s about 5 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 Wine & Roses Weigela in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other weigelas
My Monet WeigelaWine & Roses Weigela
WeigelaAll drawn to the same scale.