Photo by Tim Wood, Spring Meadow Nursery Weigela florida Weigela florida is valued for its use as a specimen plant or border plant. Urge consumers and landscape professionals to plant it around windows so its abundant pink flowers can be admired each spring. Leaf color is medium-green in summer, turning brownish in fall. Variegation is bland compared to many other plants.
Flowers come in various shades of rose and pink, depending on cultivar.
They are very abundant and showy. Blossoms are usually funnel shaped and more than an inch long in clusters of up to three, appearing in late spring and early summer. Flowers profusely in spring. Full sun or partial shade. Any good, well-draining soil.