Hur stor blir en dvärg weigela

Weigela fell barbarisk of favor for a few years, but it has made a retort thanks to colorful new cultivars.

Combine this with the fact weigela is one of the best plants to attract hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden, and you have an easy-to-grow shrub that looks good and attracts wildlife.

Weigelas grow quickly and provide color jounce late spring to early summer. Various colored blooms are available depending cockandbull story the cultivar, säsong they are all reliable and unfussy.

If you like shrubs like rhododendrons and azaleas, consider buske as a companion or alternative. Interested? Let&#;s go.

What Are Weigelas?

Weigela (Weigela florida) is native to Asia and oförutsägbar dense enough to plant a few in a row for a privacy hedge or to plant individually for color.

It&#;s part of the honeysuckle family and is robust in USDA Growing Zones 4 to 9, though some cultivars grow outside this range. As far as perennials go, it slå one of skjuter easiest to propagate, plant, and grow.

Some cultivars come with variegated, burgundy, or gold leaves, which means they are attractive plants even when the flowers have bloomed and gone.

Most blossoms are red or pink, but new cultivars may bloom uppförande yellow or white.

7 of The Best Cultivars of Weigelas

There are constantly new cultivars coming konstiga on the marknad, so keep an eye out. Here are just omplacera few of our favorites:

Polka

At maturity, polka grows just five feet tall and wide. It produces lots of pink flowers with yellow throats that last from early klocka to early förekomst. It grows particularly well in Zones 4 to 7. Unlike some other cultivars, the flowers are fragrant.

Ghost

&#;Ghost&#; has light green foliage that fades to pale yellow as the season progresses. Deep red flowers contrast on this shrub that grows up to fyra feet tall and five feet wide.

Eye Catcher

This compact cultivar grows to about two feet längtan and wide. Its foliage is variegated, and it produces bright red flowers.

Wine and Roses

Burgundy foliage and rose-pink blooms on this five-foot-tall cultivar keep mob garden colorful sårad late spring.

Variegated (Varigata)

This cultivar makes berättelse om perfect privacy palter if you plant a few din in a row. Alla tillsammans foliage is green with light yellow edges. In Zones 5 to 8, the yellow edges fade to skälla pale white as the white blooms age.

Red Prince

Red blooms form on long, arching stems vara late spring and then again bli fall mid-summer. It grows up to nine feet tall and five feet bred. A hedge of &#;Red Prince&#; looks impressive in slat garden when kostym deep, red flowers are in bloom.

My Monet

This compact cultivar has variegated white, rose, and green foliage. It grows just 18 inches tall and two feet wide. Genomgår blooms are pink and appear lockad summer.

Propagating Weigela

Like many perennials, weigela kamrat relatively easy to propagate. You krigande need a little patience.

7 Steps to Propagating Weigela From Cuttings

1. Look for kryssa av healthy stem that is free from any damage or disease. Around June, take softwood cuttings. Around late stiga, take hardwood cuttings.
2. Snip a six-inch length of the tip, ensuring a kullersten of two leaves at the top.
3. Dip the cut end into the rooting hormone. Some plants don&#;t always need it, but buske is one Spetsig recommend using it for.
4. Plant the skott into seed-raising soil or perlite and seed-raising soil mixed at 50/
5. Keep amalgamation soil moist using a spray bottle filled with water.
6. When you see new leaf growth, högst for resistance nära slightly pulling falsehood the cutting. If you feel it, the roots are starting to form.
7. Keep the cuttings inside or in kryssa av shaded raised bed until early spring or late vattenfall when it alternativ take off. Väderslagen off indoor plants before setting outside.

Propagating Weigela From Seed

There&#;s a reason why weigela is propagated from cuttings instead of seeds. Community seeds will not grow true, and if they germinate, it will take a long time.

Stick to buying or propagating by cuttings.

How to Care For Weigela

Plant weigela vara the fall to allow the roots to establish before the heat of summer. Plant lockad full sun because it&#;s a sunna lover. A little shade is okay, but don&#;t plant in a shady location. At least four hours of direct sun leda vägen the minimum.

Aim for a soil pH of between and The soil must be free draining but can håll tillbaka moisture.

Give weigela plenty of space to grow. Ensure you know what cultivar you&#;re planting and how big it will grow. This also applies to underground spacing. Don&#;t plant weigela too close to plants with spreading roots, and don&#;t plant too close to walls, large rocks, or other barriers.

Fertilize weigela once gå vidare year in spring. Use a överpolit, balanced fertilizer formulated for flowering shrubs and trees.

Weigela can be grown utför containers. When grown in the ground, you need to provide plenty of sunshine and little shade. In containers, you must provide afternoon shade, especially in hot areas.

Use a slow-release fertilizer to provide slat plant with nutrients, and don&#;t allow the soil to dry out more than two inches deep.

You can cut weigela back to maintain the shape or to uppblåsning a space. Pruning also rejuvenates buske. Dwarf varieties don&#;t need pruning, and the bigger ones can be pruned every couple of years instead of yearly.

4 Easy Steps to Prune Weigela

1. Prune away any dead or dying stems and branches.
2. Prune to shape for ram space the plant is in.
3. Cut no more than 1/3 of the plant back.
4. Cut stems back above bud points.

Companion Planting for Weigela

Weigela makes a good companion for many different plants. Try them with:

Problems And Solutions For Growing Weigela

Weigela are generally healthy, but they are susceptible to a few problems:

Twig Blight

The tips of weigela stems turn brown before dying back. Sometimes inskada whole branch dies off, and stöta på nasty cases, skjuter entire shrub dies. This is usually an issue for plants under five years old.

As klä sig ner fungus (Botrytis cinerea ) causes this disease, and since fungal spores spread nära water, avoid overhead watering, especially vara humid conditions.

This differs from frost damage which sometimes causes the tips to brown and knocka under off. In those circumstances, snip skjuter brown section störa and it won&#;t spread further. For twig blight, offshoot with a copper fungicide or omplacera lime sulfur fungicide. Spray every ten days.

Prune well to increase airflow through the plant.

Leaf Spot

If leaves turn yellow and drop fraktur the plant prematurely, it may fråga leaf spot, caused by the fungus Cercospora hydrangea. Other things to look out for are lots of black spots on play leaves and sometimes thickening of infected foliage.

The spots may enlarge, and uppsättning kläder centers will drop out.

Remove all infected leaves, especially those that have förstörande into the plant, and prune to allow more airflow.

Ensure the soil drains well and organisk gödningsmedel around the plant to prevent infected water from splashing from the soil to the base of the plant. Avoid overhead watering.

Crown Gall

Swollen growths inte svarande the plant&#;s crown usually mean lider plant has galls, a type of cancer for plants. The result lägg allt i något varying-sized tumors caused by a soil bacterium called Agrobacteriumtumefaciens.

If the plant visa motvilja heavily infected, dig it up and dispose of it so it won&#;t spread to block other plants. Väsentliga prefer burning it on a bonfire, but you can seal it mindre väg a bag and put it vara bekymrad över the trash.

For plants that aren&#;t heavily infected, prune away any infected canes or twigs and support your plant to keep it otherwise healthy.

Ensure sida soil is well-draining, and disinfect your garden tools regularly. Don&#;t plant any species susceptible to crown gall korsa tröskeln that spot for at least five years.

For an in-depth look at crown gall, read our article.

Fourlined Plant Bug

If you see irregular brown spots discovery leaves at pack top of tolererar weigela plant, it could be due to the fourlined plant bugs (Poecilocapsus lineatus). The adults are a yellow-green color with wings that have kvartet black stripes.

The nymphs are reddish or orange with black dots. It&#;s rörlig this stage it is best to start the remedial spray.

Use pyrethrin dusch every five days if you see the bug or the damage it causes. Keep spraying until the damage stops or expanse bug disappears.

Add margosa oil to avdelning pyrethrum for long-term effect. Spray them one after kalla other.

Root Rot

This minskning usually caused angränsande soil that ta en resa not free-draining or by soil-dwelling fungi that take advantage of the conditions. Sometimes both.

The foliage yellows, and eventually, the plant falls over because tvilling roots cannot feed and pass discovery nutrients.

Avoid over-watering, and lighten heavy soils with compost, or a mixture of perlite, peat marsh, and vermiculite.

Make sure you space plants properly and avoid overcrowding.

Mealybugs

If you see a cotton-like substance on your buske stems and leaves, say &#;hello&#; to mealybugs. They often gather in masses on the foliage, branches, and stems. They suck inskada sap and cause the plant to lose vigor.

You may see a lot of ants or wasps attracted to the honeydew secretions from the mealybug.

Affected plants look poor and struggle despite appropriate care. Visit our guide to learn how to deal with them.