Wine and Roses Weigela
Weigela florida 'Alexandra'
Proven Winners
$49.00 – $62.00
A flamboyant new spring-flowering shrub, featuring rosy-pink trumpet-shaped flowers held over deep wine-colored foliage, attracts hummingbirds; a relatively compact shrub, ideal for garden detail use; needs full sun
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Wine and Roses Weigela is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape | but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
Ornamental Qualities
Wine and Roses Weigela features showy clusters of hot pink trumpet-shaped flowers along the branches in late spring. It has attractive deep purple deciduous foliage. The pointy leaves are highly ornamental and turn an outstanding brick red in the fall.
Planting and Growing
Wine and Roses Weigela will grow to be about 5 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 5 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front | and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.
This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions | and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 5'Hx5'W
Flowers are hot pink
Flowers in late spring
Attracts hummingbirds
Fall color brick red
Zone 5a
Likes average to moist soil