Pink Weigelia
Pink Weigela is a deciduous ornamental plant known for its abundant, trumpet-shaped rose flowers, which bloom in late spring to early summer. These flowers add vibrant color to garden landscapes. With its enchanting attributes and versatile characteristics, it offers a range of advantages when integrated into landscaping designs. Its unique features blend aesthetic appeal, ecological contributions, and practical benefits, making it a preferred choice among landscape designers and homeowners. Aesthetically, it brings a touch of charm to landscapes.
Pink Weigela
The pink weigela is lauded for its beautiful flowers. Its botanical name is the Weigela Florida. Of course, you may be surprised to learn that Florida means beautiful, and the first part of this shrub's name was the discovering scientist's last name. However, this bush is often referred to as the beauty bush or pink poppet. It's part of the Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family. The beauty bush is considered native to Northern China, Korea, and Japan. However, it can be grown in many other places around the world.
Characteristics of the Pink Weigela
The beauty bush is known for its stunning pale red colored flowers. These blushing blooms are prevalent in the late spring and summer. However, sometimes the flowers return in the fall. The bush can grow to heights of 10 feet and widths of up to 12 feet, and it has dark green leaves. It's important to note that this shrub produces blooms on last year's stems.
How to Landscape with the Pink Weigela
The beauty bush looks best around homes and buildings. In fact, it's often planted as a foundation shrub along with other flowers and ornamental grasses. This beautiful shrub can also be planted along property perimeters to create a living fence, and it can be used to create hedge walls when combined with other bushes and shrubs. Creative gardeners can even prune and train it to look like a tree.
Attract Hummingbirds with the Pink Weigela
Beauty bushes are known for attracting hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. Birds have also been known to make their nests in them.
What to Plant Around the Pink Weigela
You can add color and variety by planting other bushes and flowers around the beauty bush. Some recommended companions include the double red knockout rose, creeping veronica, peonies, lavender, silver mist, blue stars, and dwarf catmint. Gardenias and hydrangeas also look great next to the beauty bush.
All types of gardeners will love the beautiful bush. Its brightly colored flowers can make a statement in almost any yard. They do well as foundation plantings and perimeter bushes and can be trained to look like trees. The flowers can be trimmed and used as centerpieces in vases with other types of flowers.
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Plants arrived, packaged very well. Just planted today so can't comment on very much at this point. Hoping the thrive where they are planted.
Pink Weigela
These were everything I could ask for. The starts had healthy roots, were good sized and are thriving. Could not have asked for more. Thank you!
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Rod Garrett
Henagar Alabama
The second time package was received in good order. Had planted the dormant bushes the next day. The plants slow waking up, but beginning to have some leaves, and doing well to date. growth.
I hope the bush leafs out soon.
