Weigela Species, Old Fashioned Weigela

I've had a wine and roses shrub for about 5 years and it flowers nicely every year. It's part of a shrub border and keeps to the tag's s...Read Moretated height of 5 to 6 feet. I haven't ever trimmed it and it's around 5 feet right now. I have sandy/loam soil which dries out quickly and since it's placed between two smoke bushes, which don't like too much water, the weigela also doesn't get watered much. Even in our 90 - 100* weather the plant never seems to wilt or stress. My daughter has the shell pink variety in clay soil. It also does well with little to no care and is fantastically beautiful----actually, much more so (in my humble opinion) than the wine and roses. Every rhodie that dies will be replaced with one of these beautiful shrubs (I have 15) as they don't seem to have pests, diseases and they're not water hogs. I DO mulch every year.

The one that I have I got the start from my grandma, up in the mountains north of Clarksville, Ar. I tried every way to get a start & non...Read Moree worked till I took a branch anchored it to the ground & covered it with dirt, when it had rooted I cut it off of the main plant & it grew like crazy. I got my start before my grandma passed away in 1976 & moved it here in 1985. I don't do anything to it, it blooms everyyear unless a freeze or frost gets it. I don't water it or feed it, because I just didn't have the time or energy to do so. It is special to me because it came from my grandma. How long she had hers or where it came from I don't know. I know that she didn't water hers because she would have had to draw the water for it.

Got mine as a gift in a little pot, planted it in a mostly sunny area and it's grown to about 8 or 9 feet. I don't do a thing to
...Read Moreit and thrives. Hummingbirds love it and deer leave it alone.

This is the first plant the hummingbirds come to in the spring. And the songbirds use it for cover. Mine was planted 6 years ago and is a...Read Morebout 9' tall, despite yearly pruning of the less productive branches. When it's in bloom, little else can compete with its beauty.