This reliable, strikingly colourful shrub produces gold and green variegated foliage with red flowers in spring. Weigela florida ?Moulin Rouge? is a reliable deciduous shrub with a pleasing upright habit. A real talking point and one of those plants that every garden should have. Most attractive to pollinating insects and very easy to grow. Height: 1.8m (6?). Spread: 1.2m (4?).
The most beautiful soft pink trumpet-shaped flowers appear on arched branches in summer, producing a light fragrance and attracting beneficial pollinating insects to its nectar rich blooms. The dark green foliage is more rounded than that on species plants and creates an excellent background for summer flowering perennials when grown in mixed borders. Weigela florida ?Polka? is a superb spreading, deciduous shrub and are favoured by hummingbirds too. Height: 120cm (48?). Spread: 150cm (59?).
As pretty as one of Monet's masterpieces, this delightfully small and compact flowering shrub really has the most beautiful 3-colour foliage. Perfect for mixed borders and containers. Reaching around 1m in height and width, Weigela 'Monet' is a lovely spring-flowering shrub, with big, lipstick-pink tubular flowers in spring. However, the real highlight is its foliage which forms a neat mound of pink-blushed leaves. Each green leaf is edged with a variable cream variegation, with varying tints of rose-pink flushing throughout. Variegation will change depending on light exposure - whiter variegation develops in shade and deepest pink in full sun - nevertheless a picture wherever it is grown! Due to its compact nature, it's perfect in pots as a feature plant or in the front of smaller gardens. Easy to grow too, so makes the perfect plant for new gardeners or those who prefer to spend less time maintaining and more time enjoying. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, ready for planting out. and reaching 60-100cm high and wide. Flowers mainly in May but can flush again in summer.
Weigela florida 'Rosea' is a lovely deciduous shrub with arching branches and bright green leaves that form a mound of loose stems as it begins to grow in spring. From May until July it will produce bright cerise buds that open into clusters of lovely, funnel shaped pink flowers. Weigela florida varieties are recommended by the RHS as 'Plants for Pollinators' and are a favourite with butterflies and bees. A medium sized shrub, it looks splendid towards the back of a border or in woodland gardens but also works well in a large planter, where its size can be kept under control to give a more compact plant. It can even be grown as a low maintenance flowering hedge. Very easy to look after, 'Rosea' is fully hardy and low maintenance. Just cut it back after flowering to allow new branches space to grow. These will carry next year's flowers. Supplied as an established plant in a 2 L pot, ready for planting and growing to a height and spread of 2 m (2½ ft).