Few flowering shrubs bring as much bold personality, wildlife-friendly energy, and easy curb appeal as Weigela shrubs. These bright, tubular bloomers rank high for searches like easy care flowering shrubs, pollinator-friendly shrubs, deer-resistant shrubs, and full sun flowering bushes, thanks to their long-lasting spring display and their no-fuss growing habit. Home gardeners and landscaping pros turn to Weigela for its reliable color, rich foliage, and spring-to-summer garden performance.
From their fibrous roots that settle in fast to their arching stems, glossy tiered leaves, and lightly fragrant blooms, Weigela shrubs feel like a gift from Ma Nature designed to make every border, cottage garden, or foundation planting feel joyful!
Those wide-mouthed flowers pull in hummingbirds, butterflies, and early pollinators right when the garden wakes up. With foliage choices ranging from fresh green to deep purples and golds, these shrubs deliver serious color with very little work.
- Landscaping Uses
- Hummingbirds Love Weigela Bushes
- Design Tips for Weigela Shrubs
- #ProPlantTips: Planting and Care for Weigela
- Fall in Love With Weigela!
With a rainbow of bloom colors, dependable growth habits, and both dwarf and full-sized options, Weigela bushes help gardeners of every level feel like pros while keeping their landscapes full of movement and seasonal energy.
Landscaping Uses
Weigela is a very attractive plant in full bloom and one of the easiest shrubs to work into borders, cottage gardens, foundation lines, pollinator spaces, and containers. You can find a wide range of Weigela shrubs for sale at Nature Hills Nursery, with bloom colors ranging from yellow to red to pink to lavender. When Weigela reaches peak bloom in late spring and early summer, the shrubs become incredibly vivid and lively.
- Choose from bright whites, cheerful pinks, or moody dark reds and purples. For a bold black and white look, Tuxedo Weigela adds a stylish touch that makes nearby perennials shine.
- Dynamic Red Prince Weigela helped launch the modern Weigela craze with its reliable, brilliant red blooms and easy care routine. Tiered, narrowly ovate leaves give the shrubs a beautiful textural presence even when they are not in bloom.
Dwarf Weigela shrubs like the My Monet series offer fabulous foliage for small gardens or container designs. These mini varieties include:
- Exquisite My Monet Weigela with creamy white margins that turn strawberry pink in full sun.
- My Monet Purple Effect Weigela featuring green, purple, and white foliage with plum purple to mauve pink blooms.
- My Monet Sunset Weigela with golden glowing leaves that turn fiery red in fall.
These compact forms make outstanding facer shrubs, container accents, and groundcover style groupings. Their foliage makes them just as eye-catching as their blooms, giving you a multi-seasonal show.
Hummingbirds Love Weigela Bushes
Weigela’s long, wide-mouthed flowers are perfectly shaped for hummingbirds. These Asian natives explode in spring with bright blooms held in corymb clusters along their arched branches, and the flowers act like a clarion call for butterflies and beneficial pollinators.
They are hardy, urban-tolerant shrubs with very few pests to worry about. Wine and Roses Weigela creates a show-stopping entrance when planted in pairs at community gardens. For container charm, soft pink flowering Minuet Weigela is lovely beside a patio or porch. Their fragrant spring blooms and rich color keep the garden buzzing.
Design Tips for Weigela Shrubs
These shrubs work as accents, hedges, facer shrubs, foundation plantings, or mass plantings. Their cheerful blooms and lively shape make them ideal cottage garden companions and stand-out specimens. Their color bridges the bloom gap between Iris, Peonies, and Bee Balm, bringing movement right when the garden shifts into early summer.
Have fun finding ways to accent your home with Weigela!
Use a single Weigela as a decorative living fountain near a patio or lawn. Pop a mini Weigela into a tall urn to splash color at your entry. Use matching container-grown shrubs as sentries flanking a garden gate. Their arching stems and strong color glow when lifted closer to eye level.
Versatile Weigela Hedges and Mass Plantings
Large Weigela shrubs make friendly, flowering property line fences and vibrant backdrops. Mass plantings fill bare ground quickly with intense color. Their ability to hide bare stems of older shrubs makes them top-tier facer shrubs for refreshing established landscapes.
#ProPlantTips: Planting and Care for Weigela
Light
Weigela grows best in full sun to light shade. They need at least four hours of direct sun for the best blooming and richest foliage color.
Planting
Plant at least 6 feet from buildings for good air circulation and to enjoy the way breezes move through the branches. Use well-drained soil, dig the hole twice as wide as the root system, and include Nature Hills Root Booster. Water deeply and regularly during establishment.
Pruning and Mulch
Top dress with a three-inch layer of mulch, keeping it away from the stems. Trim winter dieback in spring. Because Weigela blooms on old wood, prune right after flowering. Every few years, perform renewal pruning by removing the thickest, oldest stems at ground level.
Fertility
Apply a blooming shrub fertilizer in spring. Avoid high-nitrogen lawn fertilizers because they promote leafy growth instead of flowers. Choose a slow-release bloom-boosting formula.
Fall in Love With Weigela!
Weigela may be a small genus, but with more than 180 cultivars available, there is a size, shape, and color for every gardener. Even beginners find Weigela blissfully easy to grow. Use them in containers, borders, pollinator gardens, and porches to keep those vibrant blooms close. As gardeners like to say, once you wiggle into Weigela, you never wiggle out.
Happy Planting!